Reading and Viewing Words in Fra Angelico’s Typological Paintings by Lasse Hodne

“…His series of 36 small panels from the Armadio degli argenti, now in the Museo di San Marco (Florence), is apparently a quite conventional representation of “highlights” from the Gospel story. However, the inscriptions that accompany each panel reveal a typological scheme at heart of the pictorial programme. …”
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Words in a World of Scaling-up: Epistemic Normativity and Text as Data by Sayan Bhattacharyya

“…By describing what happens when the tool is applied to a large, heterogeneous and diverse textual corpus, we show how textual inscriptions that stand in a relationship of subalternity to structuring normativities of the text corpus could become invisible unless they already conform to the epistemic assumptions underlying those normativities. …”
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Reimpiego di stele romane al Cimitero ebraico del Lido di Venezia by Fabbiani, Licia

“…They are of parallelepiped shape, with an upper polished section carved with Hebrew inscriptions, which date back to the end of the Fifteenth century, and a lower rough section which shows a hole of about 7,08-8,66 inches in diameter, since this part was meant to be buried. …”
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Provincia Armenia in the Light of the Epigraphic Evidence by Michael Alexander Speidel

“…The present contribution reviews the Roman inscriptions that can be dated to this period, as well as the historical evidence they provide for the history of Greater Armenia as a Roman province.…”
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Retribuzione, alimentazione e qualità della vita nei cantieri dei santuari greci in età classica. Una nota by Giovanni Marginesu

“…It also takes into consideration some Attic epigraphic sources dating to the Classical Age, relating to the diet of the artisans, comparing them with Cretan and Delphic inscriptions. Finally, some details relating to the treatment of free men and slaves, as ergatai, in the context of public works are discussed. …”
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The Task of Manga Translation: Akira in the West by Martin de la Iglesia

“…It was based on the English-language edition and also printed in colour, and combined two American issues in one.This article analyses the materiality of these two translated editions with a focus on three main issues – the mirroring (or ‘flipping’) which changes the reading direction from right-to-left into left-to-right, the colouring of the originally black and white artwork, and the translation of different kinds of script (sound effects, speech bubble text, and inscriptions or labels) …”
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Civitas christiana versus núcleos de poder: la ciudad post-romana en el reino de Asturias by Luis R. MENÉNDEZ BUEYES

“…Its analysis requires studiying texts, inscriptions and monuments, and then evaluating of the cities to be analysed and its territory.…”
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Jerry ou comment faire parler autrement les murs by Sterlin Ulysse

“…In 2007, the inhabitants of Port-au-Prince discovered on various walls inscriptions and drawings, signed by «Jerry», which sometimes delivered social or moral messages, and sometimes supported the opposite view by distorting them. …”
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The visual resonances of a Harari Qur’ān: An 18th century Ethiopian manuscript and its Indian Ocean connections by Sana Mirza

“…Dated to 1162/1749, the Khalili Qur’ān can be linked with Mamluk and earlier Indian Qur’ān manuscripts through its illuminations and its use of biḥārī script, a type rarely seen outside of India. Later inscriptions in the Qur’ān record its eventual arrival in Zanzibar. …”
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Le cheval dans l’Arabie méridionale antique by Christian Julien Robin, Sabina Antonini de Maigret

“…This was already suggested by the corpus of South Arabian inscriptions; and it has since been proven by the petroglyphs discovered in the region of Ḥimā in southern Saudi Arabia. …”
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Connecting Historic Graffiti to Past Parishes and Beliefs by Crystal Hollis

“…This paper will show the value of studying these inscriptions by discussing two churches constructed in the late medieval period in Suffolk, England, with drawings of two figures that potentially represent the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child. …”
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Learning to be a Biblical Scribe: Examples from the Letter Writing Genre by William M. Schniedewind

“…It discusses how educational curriculum can be reconstructed from Hebrew inscriptions and comparative examples in cuneiform literature. …”
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Taoist Death Care in Medieval China—An Examination of Wu Tong’s (吳通) Epitaph by Lianlong Wang

“…Since its inception, Taoism has actively participated in funeral activities, so the combination of epitaphs and tomb inscriptions has a historical origin. The establishment of a unified dynasty in the Sui Dynasty provided an opportunity for the integration and development of Taoism in the north and south. …”
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L’islam tropical face à la mort by Michelangelo Giampaoli

“…The analysis of the processes that lead those people to the choice of this specific place, to the creation of monuments, inscriptions and epitaphs and the development of ritual practices - through which this community renew the relationship with its own origin, starting from the relationship built with death - allows today to reconstruct the history and the memories of a specific Islamic community, as well as its progressive interaction with the complex and multicultural Brazilian context.…”
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How Must a Polygon Be According to Hard of Hearing Students? An Investigation with a Semiotic Approach by Nejla Gürefe

“…It was seen that the students used gesture, speech, sign language, inscriptions which are semiotic sources and personal or mathematical definitions to express polygon concept. …”
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Visibility Strategies: On the Imprudence of the Art on Walls by Angélica Adverse

“…This paper examines the common imagery of the inscriptions found on the walls of some Latin American and European cities. …”
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Organization of the Poleis of Crete and the Evolution of their Territory from the Archaic to Roman Periods by Kostantinos Tziampasis

“…Though most of their names have been saved through texts (either inscriptions or literature), not all have yet been located exactly. …”
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Niches and Sculptures of the Imaginary Realm—Revisiting the Fowan Rock Carvings, Beishan, Dazu by Bo Sun

“…This essay employs niche inscriptions in a discussion of typical Fowan niche contents, matching lay feasting activities onto the period background behind their construction. …”
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0272 "Iussu patris"? Prolegomena on Form and Function of Women Artists’ Signatures in the Early Modern Period by Samuel Vitali

“…Through an analysis of the frequency with which women artists signed their works as well as the iconic and textual form of the inscriptions, it establishes a number of peculiarities that distinguish female from male signing practice. …”
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Walking through kindergarten semiotic landscapes with multilingual children: A way to explore participation and engagement by Martin Fjeld, Katrine Giæver

“…Semiotic landscapes are public spaces with visible inscriptions made through deliberate human intervention and meaning making (Jaworski & Thurlow, 2010). …”
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