De Rossi and Duchesne at once recognized in it phrases similar to those in the epitaph of Abercius.
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The allusion to St. Paul the Apostle, which a gap in the text renders indecipherable, may originally have told how the traveller followed on his way back to his country the stages of St. Paul's third missionary journey, namely: Issus, Tarsus, Derbe, Iconium, Antioch in Pisidia and Apamea Cibotus, which would bring him into the heart of Phrygia.
Omurtag's Tarnovo Inscription | Bronze 'fish tally' with small Khitan inscription owned by Stephen Wootton Bushell | statue inscription in "Love is a Ball" (1963) at 51:44 | Padang Roco inscription | Nagajari-Khanikargaon rock inscription | Great Karnak Inscription | Buyla inscription | Behistun Inscription | alt=A drawing of the first inscription (with some minor errors), as it could be read in 1887'' | Abercius of Hieropolis |