The British Museum Book of the Rosetta StoneDorset Press, 1991 - 64 pages Tells of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, and the story of how its mystery was solved. Includes a translation of text, a hieroglyphic alphabet, and a brief illustration of the ancient Egyptian language. |
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... Coptic churches at the present day . Its vocabulary con- sists of a mixture of ancient Egyptian and Greek words . Of even greater importance later , early Coptic primers were written in Arabic so anyone who could read Arabic had access ...
... Coptic churches at the present day . Its vocabulary con- sists of a mixture of ancient Egyptian and Greek words . Of even greater importance later , early Coptic primers were written in Arabic so anyone who could read Arabic had access ...
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... Coptic equivalents many of the Egyptian words which he had been able to read . In his studies of the Rosetta Stone inscrip- tion his knowledge of Coptic enabled him to de- duce the phonetic values of many syllabic signs and to assign ...
... Coptic equivalents many of the Egyptian words which he had been able to read . In his studies of the Rosetta Stone inscrip- tion his knowledge of Coptic enabled him to de- duce the phonetic values of many syllabic signs and to assign ...
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... Coptic it was known that the word for ' life ' or ' living ' was onkh , which was thought to be derived from an ancient Egyptian word ankh represented by the sign † . It was therefore guessed that the next signs meant ' ever ' . Here Coptic ...
... Coptic it was known that the word for ' life ' or ' living ' was onkh , which was thought to be derived from an ancient Egyptian word ankh represented by the sign † . It was therefore guessed that the next signs meant ' ever ' . Here Coptic ...
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Åkerblad Alexandria alphabetically written ancient Egyptian language Arsinoe Bankes obelisk base block BELOVED OF PTAH Berenike biliteral BRITISH MUSEUM BOOK Cairo cartouche of Cleopatra Champollion contain the name Coptic copy correctly Damanhur decipherment of hieroglyphs Delta demotic section demotic text demotic version demotic words derived from hieroglyphs diadems discovery early decipherers Egyp Egyptian and Greek Egyptian Antiquities Egyptian version Egyptian word EPIPHANES EUCHARISTOS father festival French glyphs Gods Philopatores Greek form Greek section Greek text Greek words Hermopolis Parva hieratic hiero hieroglyphic form hieroglyphic section honours Horus identified ideograms inscription Institut National King PTOLEMY kingship Lower Egypt Memphis motic name Cleopatra name Ptolemy Osiris patra Philae phonetic complement phonetic value priests PTOL realised reign represent the letter Rosetta Stone royal name scholars scription shrine Silvestre de Sacy sound value stela symbolic temples throughout Thomas Young Thoth three signs tion translation triliteral Upper Egypt whereas writing written in HIEROGLYPHS