Rosetta Stone - Facsimile Drawing Actual Sized Poster and Booklet - Harry Abrams

by Stephen Quirke

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Rosetta Stone Facsimile Drawing with an introduction and translations by Stephen Quirk and Carol Andrews Publisher: Harry N. Abrams / Year: 1988 / ISBN: 0810915723 / Description: Folder, Trade Paperback and Actual Sized folded facsimile drawing (42-7/8 x 33-7/8") / Condition: Very Good condition / no marks, no underlining, no highlighting / This folder contains • Actual-size facsimile drawing (42-7/8 x 33-7/8") • 24-page booklet containing — the discovery and deciphering of the Stone — its cultural and historical setting — transliterations and translations of the scripts — notes and bibliography The Rosetta Stone is famous for its bilingual text written in three different scripts — hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek — which played a decisive role in the deciphering of ancient Egyptian writing. Recording a priestly decree passed at Memphis in 196 B.C., the Stone was discovered by soldiers in Napoleon's army in 1799, ceded to the British in 1801, and presented in the following year to the British Museum in London, where it has remained a major focus of scholarship and general interest ever since. This first modern facsimile drawing of the Stone has been made in the Museum's Department of Egyptian Antiquities by Dr. Stephen Quirke. It is reproduced here in its actual size, so that the three texts can be studied in their proper relationship as though the reader had access to the original. The accompanying booklet provides an up-to-date introduction to the Rosetta Stone, including a

• Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
• Year: 1989
• ISBN: 9780810915725
• Condition: Very Good

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