The MUTAT TERRA VICES inscription

Abstract

Throughout the centuries, inscriptions have been set up to record historical events. Comprised generally of a durable material upon which a text has been incised, either free-standing or incorporated within an overall architectural complex, they stand nevertheless as memorials for contemporary and future generations of a human activity thought fit to be monumentalized. The subjects of an inscription may range from the private or personal to the public, the civil to the religious, or constitute any combination thereof; it may also be of minimal significance or be of momentous importance, the timing contemporaneous or commemorative.