1st-century inscriptions

word square containing a five-word Latin palindrome

autobiographical inscription of Augustus Caesar, at Temple of Rome and Augustus at Ankara, Turkey

oldest surviving complete musical composition

Roman writing tablets found in England

limestone box asserted to be that which originally held the bones of James of the New Testament, but contested as a forgery

1st-century piece of limestone with inscription mentioning Pontius Pilate

inscription

Hathigumpha Inscription consists of seventeen lines in a Central-Western form of Prakrit incised in a deep-cut Brahmi script on the overhanging brow of a natural cavern called Hathigumpha in the southern side of the Udayagiri hill, near Bhubaneswar

a stone tablet with Hebrew text, containing a collection of short prophecies dated to the late 1st century BCE or early first century CE

bronze tablet with part of a speech by Roman emperor Claudius

oldest monument in Paris, a column dedicated to Jupiter

Ancient Roman sculpted tablet showing the mysteries of the Egyptian goddess Isis, 30 BCE – 395 CE, in the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Ancient Second Temple inscription

stele found in an ancient Georgian capital

Han dynasty inscription on a cliff in the Yanran Mountains (89 AD)

Collection of six bronze tablets containing Flavian municipal law

Ancient Second Temple inscription

bronze plate that contains the edict of the Caesar Claudius

inscription from a synagogue in late Second Temple-era Jerusalem

Roman freedwoman

marble tablet inscribed in Greek

graffiti poem found at Pompeii