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Epigraphist

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e·pig·ra·phy  (-pgr-f)
n.
1. Inscriptions considered as a group.
2.
a. The study of inscriptions.
b. Decipherment, especially of ancient inscriptions.

e·pigra·pher, e·pigra·phist n.


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Automatic deciphering of such scripts into a regional language is a difficult task and is being manually done by an expert epigraphist, who is specialized in understanding the epigraphical scripts.
The epigraphist and iconographer explained that the 40- by 22- by 22-centimeter statue, intended to be placed in temples, originated in northern India and gradually spread further southward.
The author was Pierre Dupont (1908-55), a generation younger than the leading 20th-century scholar of ancient French Indochina, the epigraphist George Coedes, and somewhat older than two art historians who wrote on overlapping topics, Mireille Benisti and Jean Boisselier.
 
 
 
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