rosetta stone?

Question

does any1 know the whereabouts of this stone? or its significance?

Answer 1

What is the Rosetta Stone?

The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing on it in two languages (Egyptian and Greek), using three scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek).

Why is it in three different scripts?

The Rosetta Stone is written in three scripts because when it was written, there were three scripts being used in Egypt.

The first was hieroglyphic which was the script used for important or religious documents.

Detail of hieroglyphic and demotic script on the Rosetta Stone
Detail of hieroglyphic and demotic script on the Rosetta Stone

The second was demotic which was the common script of Egypt.

The third was Greek which was the language of the rulers of Egypt at that time.

The Rosetta Stone was written in all three scripts so that the priests, government officials and rulers of Egypt could read what it said.

When was the Rosetta Stone made?

The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 B.C..

When was the Rosetta Stone found?

The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799.

Who found the Rosetta Stone?

The Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in Egypt.

Where was the Rosetta Stone found?

The Rosetta Stone was found in a small village in the Delta called Rosetta (Rashid).

Why is it called the Rosetta Stone?

It is called the Rosetta Stone because it was discovered in a town called Rosetta (Rashid).

What does the Rosetta Stone say?

The Rosetta Stone is a text written by a group of priests in Egypt to honour the Egyptian pharaoh. It lists all of the things that the pharaoh has done that are good for the priests and the people of Egypt.

Who deciphered hieroglyphs? Many people worked on deciphering hieroglyphs over several hundred years. However, the structure of the script was very difficult to work out.

After many years of studying the Rosetta Stone and other examples of ancient Egyptian writing, Jean-François Champollion deciphered hieroglyphs in 1822.

How did Champollion decipher hieroglyphs?

Champollion could read both Greek and coptic.

He was able to figure out what the seven demotic signs in coptic were. By looking at how these signs were used in coptic he was able to work out what they stood for. Then he began tracing these demotic signs back to hieroglyphic signs.

By working out what some hieroglyphs stood for, he could make educated guesses about what the other hieroglyphs stood for.

Answer 2

I can confirm what some of those replying have said that at present the Rosetta Stone is on public display in the British Museum London, Thee is no coptic on it. Coptic developed a few centuries after the stone was carved. It is the ordinary Egyptian of the time written in characters based on Greek. The languages in which the inscription is written are Egyptian in hieroglyphics; Egyptian in the priestly hieratic script;simplifed from hieroglyphics; and Greek, of the kind used by the Greek descended rulers of Egypt. The Greek is quite easy to read word by word but it doesn't as far I can see make a lot of sense although the general meaning has been made clear. Its significance is I believe that it allowed the decipherment of Ancient Egyptian to begin.

Answer 3

The Rosetta stone can be found in the British Museum, London.

The Rosetta Stone is a dark grey-pinkish granite stone (originally thought to be basalt in composition) inscribed with the same passage of writing in two Egyptian language scripts and in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799, and translated in 1822. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing.

The Rosetta Stone was written in three scripts so that it could be read by visiting priests, government officials, and rulers of Egypt. The first script was Hieroglyphic, which was the script used for religious documents and other important communications. The second was Demotic Egyptian, which was the common script of Egypt. The third was Greek, which was the language of the rulers of Egypt at that time.

The Stone is 114.4 cm high at its tallest point, 72.3 cm wide, and 27.9 cm thick. (45.04 in. high, 28.5 in. wide, 10.9 in. thick)

The Rosetta Stone has been exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, with only one break. Toward the end of the First World War, in 1917, when the Museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London, they moved it to safety along with other portable, important objects. The Rosetta Stone spent the next two years in a station on the Postal Tube Railway fifty feet below the ground at Holborn.

Answer 4

The Rosetta Stone is a dark grey-pinkish granite stone (originally thought to be basalt in composition) inscribed with the same passage of writing in two Egyptian language scripts and in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799, and translated in 1822. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing.

The Rosetta Stone was written in three scripts so that it could be read by visiting priests, government officials, and rulers of Egypt. The first script was Hieroglyphic, which was the script used for religious documents and other important communications. The second was Demotic Egyptian, which was the common script of Egypt. The third was Greek, which was the language of the rulers of Egypt at that time.

The Stone is 114.4 cm high at its tallest point, 72.3 cm wide, and 27.9 cm thick. (45.04 in. high, 28.5 in. wide, 10.9 in. thick)

The Rosetta Stone has been exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, with only one break. Toward the end of the First World War, in 1917, when the Museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London, they moved it to safety along with other portable, important objects. The Rosetta Stone spent the next two years in a station on the Postal Tube Railway fifty feet below the ground at Holborn.

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Answer 5

It's in the British Museum, although there is a copy in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Because the stone has the same text written in Greek, Coptic and Hieroglyphics, it was instrumental in enabling the decipherment of hieroglyphic text and therefore being able to read Ancient Egyptian.

(2 hours later - thank you to the person who corrected my schoolboy error - it wasn't Coptic ... but the language spoken by the Coptic Christians in Egypt helped to understand the Hieratic, and therefore also aided in the decipherment of the hieroglyphics.)

Answer 6

What is the Rosetta Stone?

The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing on it in two languages (Egyptian and Greek), using three scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek).

Why is it in three different scripts?

The Rosetta Stone is written in three scripts because when it was written, there were three scripts being used in Egypt.

The first was hieroglyphic which was the script used for important or religious documents.



Detail of hieroglyphic and demotic script on the Rosetta Stone
The second was demotic which was the common script of Egypt.

The third was Greek which was the language of the rulers of Egypt at that time.

The Rosetta Stone was written in all three scripts so that the priests, government officials and rulers of Egypt could read what it said.

When was the Rosetta Stone made?

The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 B.C..

When was the Rosetta Stone found?

The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799.

Who found the Rosetta Stone?

The Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in Egypt.

Where was the Rosetta Stone found?

The Rosetta Stone was found in a small village in the Delta called Rosetta (Rashid).

Why is it called the Rosetta Stone?

It is called the Rosetta Stone because it was discovered in a town called Rosetta (Rashid).

What does the Rosetta Stone say?

The Rosetta Stone is a text written by a group of priests in Egypt to honour the Egyptian pharaoh. It lists all of the things that the pharaoh has done that are good for the priests and the people of Egypt.

Who deciphered hieroglyphs? Many people worked on deciphering hieroglyphs over several hundred years. However, the structure of the script was very difficult to work out.

After many years of studying the Rosetta Stone and other examples of ancient Egyptian writing, Jean-François Champollion deciphered hieroglyphs in 1822.

How did Champollion decipher hieroglyphs?

Champollion could read both Greek and coptic.

He was able to figure out what the seven demotic signs in coptic were. By looking at how these signs were used in coptic he was able to work out what they stood for. Then he began tracing these demotic signs back to hieroglyphic signs.

By working out what some hieroglyphs stood for, he could make educated guesses about what the other hieroglyphs stood for.

The Stone is 114.4 cm high at its tallest point, 72.3 cm wide, and 27.9 cm thick. (45.04 in. high, 28.5 in. wide, 10.9 in. thick)

The Rosetta Stone has been exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, with only one break. Toward the end of the First World War, in 1917, when the Museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London, they moved it to safety along with other portable, important objects. The Rosetta Stone spent the next two years in a station on the Postal Tube Railway fifty feet below the ground at Holborn.

Ptolemy V assumed the crown at the age of five after a rather turbulent time in Egyptian history. The young ruler was faced with the daunting task of reclaiming lands lost to various invaders and reunifying his country's populace. As an attempt to reestablish legitimacy for the ruler and create a royal cult, Ptolemy's priests issued a series of decrees. The decrees were inscribed on stones and erected throughout Egypt. The Rosetta stone is a copy of the decree issued in the city of Memphis.

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 tēn basileian para tou patros... (Greek: Βασιλεύοντος του νέου και παραλαβόντος την βασιλείαν παρά του πατρός...) (The new king, having received the kingship from his father...) It is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing various taxes he 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.

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.

The Rosetta Stone is the third in a series of three stones, Stone 1 for Ptolemy III (the Stone of Canopus), Stone 2 for Ptolemy IV (The Memphis Stele), and the Rosetta Stone for Ptolemy V. Stone 1 implemented the Leap Year.

There are approximately two copies of the Stone of Canopus, two of the Memphis Stele (one imperfect), and two and a half copies of the Rosetta Stone, including the Nubayrah Stele and a pyramid Wall inscription with "edits", which resulted from overwritten scene replacements performed by subsequent scribes.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I do not know where it is but it was the key to reading the hieroglyphics on the carvings statues etc in Ancient Egypt It unlocked the code as it were and enabled historians to answer many questions that had baffled them

Answer 9

It aided in the translation of ancient Egyptian writing. It was found by some French soldiers in the Egyptian desert around the early 1800's.

Answer 10

In the British Museum and it had great significance it you are interested in Egyptian history as it enabled us to read Egyptian hieroglyphics