The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum.

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Octavo. (cont.) The Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphic Text of the Decree Inscribed on the Rosetta Stone Conferring Additional Honors on Ptolemy V Epiphanes (203-181 B.C.) with English Translations and a Short History of the Decipherment of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and an Appendix Containing Translation of the Stelae of San (Tanis) and tall Al-Maskhutah. Frontispiece, 325pp., with twenty-three plates. Today, the Rosetta Stone is one of the best known and most famous monuments in the world found by a French soldier in 1798. The real importance of this Stone was not proved until twenty years later. In 1818 a Robert Young succeeded in deciphering the name which was on the stone, that of a young king of 12 years old.Bound in blue cloth lettered in blind, spine lettering gilt, spine ends rubbed, 3 small scratches to upper board, bookseller's tickets to front and rear pastedowns. A couple of small creases to p. 222. A very good copy. N° de ref. del artículo 023530

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