Why are inscriptions more valuable than litrary sources?
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Answer:The inscriptions tells us about the geneologies of King, his achievements etc. ... The study of inscriptions is called as "Epigraphy". • They are more authentic, thus they are more valuable than literary sources.
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Inscriptions are a bit odd, since they fall into both camps. Manuscripts tend to exist in literary traditions. If you go back to, say, works composed the Middle Ages or earlier, any manuscript you find is likely not the original. It’s a copy, a copy of a copy, or otherwise an instance of a literary tradition. They’re recovered by people who research primarily written texts, in the libraries and archives where they find other texts, and the concerns around them are therefore largely of those who study manuscripts.
Inscriptions, on the other hand, are typically originals or at least the product of a single “publication” event (for example, the promulgation of a specific law code or decree) rather than nth generation copies. They’re also recovered archaeologically. The people who first see them and reassemble them are scholars whose primary interest is in physical objects.
So, then, while the contents of inscriptions are treated as a particular genre of texts with their own conventions and oddities (conventional abbreviations, formulaic text, etc.), the nature of their discovery puts them into the camp of people who think of them of material items rather than concentrating on the text.