[PDF] “Teaching Latin from Inscriptions: The Roman Funerary

What language were the inscriptions written in?

• The inscriptions were composed in the Prakrit language (in Magadhi, the dialect of Prakrit in Magadha) and written in Brahmi script throughout the greater part of the empire. But in the north-western part, they appear in Kharosthi script and in Kandahar in Afghanistan, they were written in Aramaic, in Greek script and Greek language.

What is a definitive stamp?

• argetish These definitive stamps played a pivotal role in the history of tagging. The medium- value Landscape stamps were the last definitives to be Winnipeg-tagged, and the Caricature and medium-value Landscapes were the first de finitives whose entire print run was tagged.

What is a landscape definitive?

• The Landscape definitives, consisting of five medium-value and two high- value stamps released in 1972, were based on this theme. The medium values depicted terrain across Canada, and the high values featured urban scenes.

Are the caricature definitives precancelled?

• When the Caricature definitives were issued on October 1973, the 1¢, 3¢, 5¢, and 6¢ 17 were issued in precancelled format. Evidentlya precancelled version of the 4¢ was also , contemplated, because a precancelled pane of 100 exists in the material at Library and Archives Canada (Figure 32).