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    Louis (1968). "De Delphes à l'Oxus, inscriptions grecques nouvelles de la Bactriane". Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres...
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  • scholarly consensus is thus that this man, known from an inscription to have been named Kineas, was the Seleucid epistates or oikistes who governed the...
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    belonged to a 5–6 meter tall statue. One of the inscriptions in Greek found at Ai-Khanoum, the Herôon of Kineas, has been dated to 300–250 BC, and describes...
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    inventory numbers of papyri and inscriptions of the British Museum, London. OGIS = Wilhelm Dittenberger: Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae. Col. I, Leipzig...
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    including one on the gates to Clarence Dock. Unveiled in 2000, the plaque inscription reads in Irish and English: "Through these gates passed most of the 1...
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  • the gravesite would not be forgotten. Erected on 1 December 1859, the inscription on the stone reads: "To Preserve from Desecration the Remains of 6000...
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    marble tomb, erected by his wife, Grace, and daughter, Catherine, bore an inscription describing him as "An United Irishman [who] defended the cause of civil...
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