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The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum

6/6/2011

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Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, 196 BCE

The inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone, apparently composed by the priests of Memphis, summarize benefactions conferred by Ptolemy V Epiphanes (205–180 BCE) and were written in the ninth year of his reign in commemoration of his accession to the throne. Inscribed in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, and three writing systems, hieroglyphics, demotic script (a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics), and the Greek alphabet, it provided a key to the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing.

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> British Museum
> Encyclopedia Britannica
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