Epigraph vs Inscriptions - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between epigraph and inscriptions

is that epigraph is an inscription, especially one on a building while inscriptions is plural of inscription.

(wikipedia epigraph)

(en noun)

an inscription, especially one on a building.

a literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.

(mathematics, of a function) the set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.

* (mathematics) hypograph

(head)

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