#egyptiandemotic

[adrianburwinkel]

• Rosetta Stone | replica • #IamAdrianMoss #TheBurmanTower #PhotoOfTheDay #HMNS #Houston #HTX #HoustonTX #VSCO #VSCOcam #Texas #AustinBlogger #AmateurBlogger #RosettaStone #EgyptianHieroglyphs #EgyptianDemotic #Egypt #AncientEgypt #IGtexas #Travel #IGtravel #TheOutBound #OptOutside #StandAndWander #WanderLust #Explore #NeverStopExploring #WeLiveToExplore #Science #DidYouKnow (at Houston Museum of Natural Science)

[raskoent]

Why is it important? The writing on the Stone is an official message, called a decree, about the king (Ptolemy V, r. 204–181 BC). The decree was copied on to large stone slabs called stelae, which were put in every temple in Egypt. It says that the priests of a temple in Memphis (in Egypt) supported the king. The Rosetta Stone is one of these copies, so not particularly important in its own right. The important thing for us is that the decree is inscribed three times, in Hieroglyphs (suitable for a priestly decree), Demotic (the native Egyptian script used for daily purposes, meaning ‘language of the people’), and Ancient Greek (the language of the administration – the rulers of Egypt at this point were Greco-Macedonian after Alexander the G . . When was it found? 1798 to 1801, with the intention of dominating the East #Mediterranean and threatening the British hold on India. The story most generally accepted is that it was found by accident by soldiers in Napoleon’s army. They discovered the Rosetta Stone on 15 July 1799 while digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. It had apparently been built into a very old wall. The officer in charge, realised the importance of the discovery. During a campaign in Egypt, a Napoleonic soldier found a black stone outside Rosetta, a town 35 miles from Alexandria. The stone was a slab, almost two-and-a-half feet wide and nearly four feet long, with different inscriptions on it including #EgyptianDemotic, #Greek and #Egyptian #Hieroglyphics. Following his invasion of Egypt in 1798, Napoleon had ordered a group of scholars to seize any cultural artefacts and to take them into French possession. The British took ownership of the stone after the French were defeated in 1801. . . . . . . . #RosettaStone https://www.instagram.com/p/CCoPlozDi2h/?igshid=hddxufwo4g95