# Carved Inscriptions

- By: Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
- Date: 1868
- Medium: Graphite on gray-green wove paper
- Classification: Drawings
- Dimensions: 9.6 × 14.4 cm (3 3/4 × 5 11/16 in.)
- Culture: USA
- Credit line: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22530)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/3e04ac2b5439451ab05e441ab1ac6a05.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Sketch showing a transcription of carved inscriptions on ancient ruins in Syria or Palestine (Israel). Organized into two horizontal rows across the composition, the groups of Greek and Latin letters are bunched together within rectangles, likely representing the stone rocks upon which the letters were inscribed.