5th-century BC inscriptions

kernos

form of epigraph found on Attic vases and graffiti in antiquity

Latin inscription that dates to the late 6th to early 5th centuries BC

Etruscan terracotta slab

5th-century Ancient Greek tablet written in the Cypriot syllabary

5th-century BC Phoenician sarcophagus

cuneiform inscription near Lake Van, present-day Turkey

ancient inscription on Darius the Great's tomb