The Rosetta Stone: Key to Egyptian Hieroglyphs
The article offers information on the Rosetta Stone, a stele composed of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. It mentions the preserved portion of the inscribed text gives a prie...
| Format: | Print Article |
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| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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2022
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| In: |
Biblical archaeology review
Year: 2022, Volume: 48, Issue: 3, Pages: 66 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Stele (Archaeology) B PTOLEMY V Epiphanes, King of Egypt, ca. 210 B.C.-181 or 80 B.C B ROSETTA Stone B EGYPTIAN hieroglyphics |
| Summary: | The article offers information on the Rosetta Stone, a stele composed of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. It mentions the preserved portion of the inscribed text gives a priestly decree commemorating the first anniversary of the coronation of Ptolemy V, in the spring of 196 B.C.E. |
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| ISSN: | 0098-9444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical archaeology review
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