rosetta stone

     

The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact (حجر رشيد in Arabic) which was instrumental in avancing modern understanding of hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text. The text is made up of three translations of a single passage, written in two Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic), and in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rashid (a harbour on the Mediterranean coast in Egypt renamed Rosetta by the French during the Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt) and contributed greatly to the decipherment of the principles of hieroglyphic writing in 1822 by the British polymath Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text of the Rosetta Stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repealing of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples.

Trivia about rosetta stone

  • Some of its text says, "The decree should be writen on a stela of hard stone, in sacred writing, document writing & Greek writing"
  • The 1799 discovery of this object ultimately unlocked the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphics
  • It's the British Museum translator seen here
  • A center of Egypt's rice trade, this Nile delta city lends its name to an important translating "stone"
  • In 1822 French Egyptologist Jean Champollion published a paper on the translation of this artifact
  • The August 1799 discovery of this by members of Napoleon's army translated into a major historical find
  • Carved in 196 B.C., its text was written by priests to honor Ptolemy V
  • Ptolemy V's decree pardoning prisoners was inscribed on this block of basalt discovered in 1799
  • The 1st inscription on this 1799 discovery is in hieroglyphics, the 2nd in everyday Egyptian & the 3rd in Greek
  • This slab that's inscribed in 3 different languages was found by the French in 1799
  • Jean-Francois Champollion deciphered it in the 19th century

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