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The Rosetta Stone on display in the British Museum, London

The Rosetta Stone decree, or the Decree of Memphis, is a Ptolemaic decree most notable for its bilingual and tri-scriptual nature, which enabled the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Issued by a council of priests confirming the royal cult of Ptolemy V in 196 BC at Memphis, it was written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian Demotic and Ancient Greek. It mentions the Egyptian rebellion against the Greek rulers, otherwise known only through Greek sources and remains of graffiti.[1]

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Raphia Decree

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Koine Greek

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Multilingual inscription

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Ptolemy V Epiphanes

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Memphis decree. The decree was inscribed on stelae, and two of these stelae survive: the Nubayrah Stele and the famous Rosetta Stone. This decree praises...

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Nubayrah Stele

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a mutilated copy of the Decree of Memphis (Ptolemy V) on a limestone stele. The same decree is found upon the Rosetta Stone. From 1848, it was known...

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Great Mendes Stela

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hampered efforts to understand them as late as the eighteenth century. The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799 by members of Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt...

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Stele

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Greek, the most famous example of which is the Rosetta Stone. Urartian steles were freestanding stone obelisks that served a variety of purposes, erected...

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the Rosetta Stone; only 4 times is it used as a non-preposition. It averages once per line usage in the 36 line Decree of Memphis (Ptolemy V)-(Rosetta Stone)...

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Parallel text

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versions of the Old Testament side by side. A famous example is the Rosetta Stone, whose discovery allowed the Ancient Egyptian language to begin being...

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2nd century BC

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both hieroglyphics and in demotic script, as well as in Greek on the Rosetta Stone, providing the key to deciphering the hieroglyphics almost 20 centuries...

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List of Egyptian hieroglyphs

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