Titulus (inscription)

:"See also Titulus (Roman Catholic) for Roman churches called tituli, or titulus (disambiguation) for more meanings."

"Titulus" (Latin "inscription" or "label") describes the conventional inscriptions on stone that listed the honours of an individual [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Nobiles.html] or that identified boundaries in the Roman Empire.

Examples of tituli

*In the context of the Crucifixion, the "titulus" "IESVS NAZARENVS REX IVDAEORVM" (and its translations) was affixed to the cross. "INRI" is the abbreviation for the above mentioned Latin translation. See INRI and Titulus Crucis.
*At the recovery of the coffin of King Arthur at Glastonbury Abbey, at an opportune moment after a devastating fire in the twelfth century, a lead cross of Arthur was alleged to have borne the explicit "titulus" HIC JACET SEPULTUS INCLITUS REX ARTHURUS IN INSULA AVALONIA. The well-publicized discovery described by Giraldus Cambrensis, redoubled the pilgrimages to the Abbey.

References

* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Nobiles.html William Smith, "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities", London, 1875: "Nobiles"]