Home›Ancient Inscriptions and Epigraphic Records›Medium or Support›Stone or InscriptionBrowse ByStone or InscriptionThis dimension names the physical medium a historical document was actually made on, papyrus, parchment, paper or stone. Wikipedia notes that a primary source can be "an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording," each surviving in a different physical form. Browsing by medium keeps documents made on the same material grouped together.FactsStone or InscriptionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonStart YearWell-attested3100 BCE 1Stone or InscriptionFilter Results18 entriesDocument TypeAllInscribed limestone tablet (1)Inscribed royal decree (trilingual granodiorite stele) (1)Monumental autobiographical inscription (1)Multilingual royal rock inscription and relief (1)Rock and pillar inscriptions (edicts) (1)Royal commemorative inscription (basalt stele) (1)stele (1)Stele (fragmentary inscription) (1)Stele fragment (Royal Annals) (1)Creation EraAll-2450 (1)-2250 (1)-1800 (1)-1450 (1)-1208 (1)-840 (1)700 BCE (1)-590 (1)-520 (1)-196 (1)14 (1)Original LanguageAllAncient Egyptian hieroglyphic script (1)Latin and Ancient Greek (1)Moabite (Phoenician-derived alphabet) (1)Old Aramaic (1)Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian (Akkadian) cuneiform (1)Phoenician or a northern dialect of Hebrew (1)EraAllClassical Antiquity (2)The Achaemenid Persian Period (1)The Ancient Near East and Bronze Age World (5)The Contemporary Period (1)The Iron Age (1)The Pax Romana (1)The Ptolemaic Period (1)Holding RepositoryAllBritish Museum, London (1)Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt (1)In situ, Mount Behistun, Iran (1)Israel Museum (1)Louvre Museum, Paris (1)Museum of the Ancient Orient, Istanbul (1)Origin PlaceAllKingdom of Moab (present-day Jordan) (1)Memphis, Ptolemaic Egypt (1)Mount Behistun, Kermanshah Province, Iran (1)Thebes, Egypt (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 18Behistun InscriptionStone or InscriptionBlack Obelisk of Shalmaneser IIIStone or InscriptionEdicts of AshokaStone or InscriptionFamine StelaStone or InscriptionGezer CalendarStone or InscriptionKarnak King ListStone or InscriptionLachish LettersStone or InscriptionLetoon TrilingualStone or InscriptionMerneptah SteleStone or InscriptionMesha SteleStone or InscriptionPalermo StoneStone or InscriptionRes Gestae Divi AugustiStone or InscriptionRosetta StoneStone or InscriptionStele of PiyeStone or InscriptionTel Dan SteleStone or InscriptionVictory Stele of Naram-SinStone or InscriptionVindolanda TabletsStone or InscriptionWeld-Blundell PrismStone or InscriptionSources1. Wikipedia: Narmer Palettetier 2WikipediaNarmer Palette, lead section, dating sentenceQuote, Narmer Palette, lead section, dating sentenceThe Narmer Palette ... is a significant Egyptian archaeological find, dating from about the 31st century BC.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.