epitaph has definitions from the field of writing
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[ noun ] (writing) an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there

Used in print

(Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)

Henrietta 's feeling_of_identity with Sara_Sullam was crowned by her discovery of the coincidence that Sara 's epitaph in the Jewish cemetery in Venice referred to her as `` the Sulamite '' .

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inscription

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[ noun ] a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person

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memorial

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