Rosetta Stone

:Rosetta Stone can also refer to Rosetta Stone, a language learning software produced by Fairfield Language Technologies

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The same Ptolemaic decree of 196 BC is written on the stone in the three scripts. The Greek part of the Rosetta Stone begins: Basileuontos tou neou kai paralabontos tén basileian para tou patros... (The new king, having received the kingship from his father...) It is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing various taxes he

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Ptolemaic - 196 BC - Ptolemy V

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repealed (one measured in ardebs (Greek artabai) per aroura), and instructing that statues be erected in temples and that the decree be published in the writing of the words of gods (hieroglyphs), the writing of the people (demotic), and the Wynen (Greek; the word is cognate with Ionian) language.

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Ardebs - Aroura - Ionian

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The Greeks had the habit of making bilinguals in territories they occupied, and in this case we have Egyptian, and Greek. Thus the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the Egyptian Demotic (citizen text, as in democratic), was written against the Greek language, as the new occupiers of pharaonic rule, following Alexander the Great's conquest.

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Bilingual - Alexander the Great

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The Rosetta Stone is stone three in a series of 3, a stone each for Ptolemy III, Ptolemy IV, and the Rosetta Stone, for Ptolemy V. Leap Year is implemented in Stone 1, the Stone of Canopus, for Ptolemy III.

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Ptolemy III - Ptolemy IV - Leap Year - Canopus

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There are approximately two copies, of the Stone of Canopus, two of stone 2 (one imperfect), The Memphis Stele, and two and a half copies of the Rosetta Stone, including the Nubayrah Stele, and a pyramid Wall inscription, with editings because of overwriting by scene replacements by subsequent scribers.

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