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Categories: History of translation, Multilingual texts, Archaeological corpora documents, Articles with short description, Ptolemaic dynasty

Rosetta Stone Decree of Memphis Mekhir Pierre de Rosette Rashid Stone

A part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics WordNet 3.0

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The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. Wikipedia

Ancient artifact used to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Ancient Egyptian stele inscribed with three versions of the same text, which provided the key to deciphering the Egyptian scripts Wikidata

A large inscribed stone found near Rosetta, Egypt, in 1799, later used as a basis for understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. Wiktionary

Large inscribed stone. Wiktionary (translation)

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stele

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