Crossword-Solution: INSCRIBERS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

But for thousands of years they had been mere unintelligible enigmas to the curious but baffled beholder: and they were often referred to as instances of the folly of human pride, which could indeed write its own praises in the solid rock, but only for the rock to outlive the language as well as the memory of the vain-glorious inscribers.

But for thousands of years they had been mere unintelligible enigmas to the curious but baffled beholder; and they were often referred to as instances of the folly of human pride, which could indeed write its own praises in the solid rock, but only for the rock to outlive the language as well as the memory of the vainglorious inscribers.

Apparently some of the inscribers in the bog-houses used excrement as a medium for--as well as a subject of--their inscriptions.

Why should Pictish stones _not_ be inscribed with archaic patterns familiar to the dwellers among inscribed rocks, perhaps themselves the inscribers of the rocks? Manifestly there is no _a priori_ improbability.

And there are many variations of the lines inscribed by Jerome on Paula’s tomb: Aspicis augustum praecisa in rupe sepulcrum, hospitium Paulae est caelestia regna tenentis, which proclaim the ignorance of the inscribers.[1100] This does not mean that these people would have been better educated under the pagan system: there are many instances of mistakes in pagan inscriptions too.