The British Museum Book of the Rosetta Stone

Akerblad 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 glyphs Gods Philopatores Greek form Greek section Greek text Greek words Hermopolis Parva hieratic hiero hieroglyphic section hieroglyphic word honours Horus identified ideograms inscription Institut National King Ptolemy kingship Lower Egypt Memphis motic name Cleopatra name Ptolemy patra phonetic complement phonetic value priests Ptol realised reign represent the letter Rosetta Stone royal name scholars scription shrine sign f Silvestre de Sacy sound value stela symbolic temples throughout Thomas Young Thoth three signs tion translation triliteral Upper Egypt whereas writing written in hieroglyphs