The Rosetta Stone

Geisteswissenschaften / Archäologie / Rosetta Stone


Budge, E. A. Wallis
Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications Limited

Signatur: A009-B101-D001-A001
Buchart: Broschüre
Verlag: British Museum Publications Ltd., London (Großbritannien)
Veröffentlichung: 1976
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 8
Format:
Größe (HxBXT): 30,2 x 24,4 cm x 0,2 cm
The Rosetta Stone
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Inhaltsverzeichnis:
1. The disccovery of the stone; 2. The arrival of the stone in England; 3. Description of the stone; 4. The earliest decipherers of the Rosetta Stone; 5. Method of decipherment; 6. The contents of the inscription on the Rosetta Stone

Kurzbeschreibung:
Publication accompanying the model of the Rosetta Stone

Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"The famous slab of black basalt which stands at the southern end of the Egyptian Sculpture Gallary in the British Museum, and which has for more than a century been universally known as the Rosetta Stone, was found in July, 1799, at a spot near the nouth of the great arm of the Nile that flows through the Western Delata to the sea, not far froom the town of Rashîd, or as Europeans call it Rosetta. [...]"