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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... three signs , while he had wrongly identified four signs . In addition he correctly suggested that another cartouche must be that of King Tuthmosis III of the Eight- eenth Dynasty , recognised the alphabetic hiero- glyphs for f and t ...
... three signs , while he had wrongly identified four signs . In addition he correctly suggested that another cartouche must be that of King Tuthmosis III of the Eight- eenth Dynasty , recognised the alphabetic hiero- glyphs for f and t ...
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Carol Andrews. three signs in common and occurred in the ex- pected positions if the names Ptolemy and Cleo- patra were spelled alphabetically . This was enough to persuade him to abandon his previ- ous theory that hieroglyphs were mere ...
Carol Andrews. three signs in common and occurred in the ex- pected positions if the names Ptolemy and Cleo- patra were spelled alphabetically . This was enough to persuade him to abandon his previ- ous theory that hieroglyphs were mere ...
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... sign takes the place of the three signs at the end of the first cartouche . The cartouche on the Bankes obelisk which was thought to contain the Egyptian equivalent of the name Cleopatra appeared in this form : AMASA : Putting one above ...
... sign takes the place of the three signs at the end of the first cartouche . The cartouche on the Bankes obelisk which was thought to contain the Egyptian equivalent of the name Cleopatra appeared in this form : AMASA : Putting one above ...
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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