wordInscriptionWordsWriting cut or set onto a lasting surface. Not epigraph as a quoted lead, and not a book page alone.Egyptian religionInscription appears in Egyptian religion.Herodotus reports writing cut on Egyptian monuments among the land’s works. A named inscription speech in that traveler’s Egypt, not epigraph as a quoted lead and not a book page alone.from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesHistories · HerodotusHerodotus, Histories.