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SÜDAFRIKA( South-Africa), Rund um den Hluhluwe - Nationalpark Hluhluwe - Nationalpark,Gooderson Dumazulu Lodge and Traditional Village. Traditionelle Lodge mit im Zulu-Stil gebauten Edel-Hütten. and Traditional Village. Traditionelle Lodge mit im Zulu-Stil gebauten Edel-Hütten.
Außen und innen sehr hübsch und gepflegt.
Burhinus oedicnemus insularum
Eurasian Stone-curlew
Triel
Alcaravan Comun
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DGS 56180 Basel Bad Rbf - Lübeck Skandinavienkai
Am frühen Morgen des 12. Juli 2020 erreichte mich die Meldung, dass der sonntäglich LKW Walter-KLV nach Lübeck zum Skandinavienkai genau passend nach der Nachtschicht im Hamburger Raum auftauchen würde. Da das Wetter mitspielte und ich auch nicht sonderlich müde gewesen bin, habe ich mich mal auf den Deich an den Norderelbbrücken gestellt. Ich hatte allerdings nicht damit gerechnet, dass dort der Schatten des einen Baumes doch noch arg ins Gleis ragen würde. Dieser wanderte aber von Minute zu Minute aus dem Auslösepunkt heraus. Zum Glück ließ sich der mit 193 468 von SBB Cargo bespannte Blockzug noch ein wenig Zeit, so dass das Licht immer besser wurde. Als der Zug dann in einiger Entfernung auf der Bildfläche erschien, war auch die Gefahr eines S-Bahnschadens nicht gegeben. Dadurch dass es ein Sonntag war, fuhren die Schnellbahnen auf den vorderen beiden Gleisen nur alle 20min. In der Woche habe ich die Stelle auch ein paar Tage später besucht und kann Euch sagen, dass das Ganze dann nicht so viel Spaß macht, wenn gefühlt alle 3min eine S-Bahn einem durchs Bild fährt. Auch von hinten war kein Rollgeräusch auf den Stahlbrücken zu hören und so konnte ich gegen 6:30 Uhr erfolgreich meinen ersten roten SBB Cargo International Vectron in die Bildersammlung aufnehmen. Danach packte ich meine Sachen und es ging zufrieden nach Hause ins Bett...
Ich habe einen Betonpfosten und einen Stromkasten zwischen den Gleisen ins elektronische Nirwana befördert...
UPDATE zur Fotostelle! Aktuell auch nicht mehr mit Leiter umsetzbar. Es wurde auf der Höhe der Lokfront ein neuer zusätzlicher gut 2m hoher Stromkasten aufgestellt. Wieder eine Fotostelle im Hamburger Raum weniger...
General Information
Aircraft Type: Boeing 747-236F/SCD
Airline: Cathay Pacific Airways Cargo
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Registration: B-HVY
Cn: 22306/480
Name: n/a
Location & Date
Brussels Airport (BRU EBBR)
Date: 2004 01 25
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Landing RWY 25R.
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16317 Kanyakumari Jammu Tawi Himsagar express gets off from Nagercoil towards Trivandrum. The loco traverses a mammoth distance of over 3120kms and the train traverses through 13 states namely TamilNadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir. The single ED WAP-4 22306 heads the train for about 55:30 hours.
Erode WAP-4 22306 leads the second longest running train of India - 16317 Kanyakumari Jammu Tawi Himsagar express. The loco does a commendable journey from Kanyakumari to New Delhi, which is one of the most single longest hauled locomotive of Indian Railways.
Bell TH-1H Huey IIs 74-22369/FR, 73-21747/FR, 74-22311/FR, 74-22306/FR & 73-21858/FR 23rd FTS USAF
KOZR/OZR Cairns AAF
15.12.2022
Arriving on runway 08.
Delivered new to British Airways as G-KILO on 30Sep80. It did not stay long till being sold to Cathay Pacific on 15Mar82. Reregistered B-HVY on 21Oct97. WFU and arrived Kemble 29Apr08. Reregistered N747KD on 02May08 and scrapped by 23Oct08.
After the departure of the 140C 231 rail tour I filmed the SNCF activities around the Gare de Lyon and this 2.5-minute video of the comings and goings at the station on a Sunday morning 33 years ago is the result!
A line-up of BB 7200 electrics including 7245 is followed by Z5100 electric multiple unit number 327 under the fabulous iron & glass trainshed. These stainless steel units were introduced in the early 1950s, rebuilt in the 1970s and all withdrawn by 1998. BB 9506 is alongside BB 8136. The latter Class BB 8100 was also exported to the Netherlands where it was designated class 1100.
CC 6562 arrives with a passenger service crossing with outgoing 7292 light engine while BB 22202, another light engine, enters the station.
The final sequence is of SNCF electric BB 22235, which brought the steam special into the station, departing light engine.
Kodachrome collection slide.
Airline : Cathay Pacific Cargo
Aircraft : Boeing 747-236B/F
Registration : VR-HVY
MSN/LN : 22306 / 480
Location : FRA / EDDF - Frankfurt Am Main Int'l Airport
Photographer : UNKNOWN
Date : Probably photographed sometime in the mid 1980's
Box 361
Photo from the Albert Kuhbandner collection, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
ca. late 1980s
VR-HVY
Boeing 747-236F/SCD
22306 / 480
Cathay Pacific Airways Cargo
VR-HVY is lined up for take-off on runway 07.
Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Mick Bajcar:
Delivered new to British Airways as G-KILO in September 1980 and transferred to Cathay Pacific as VR-HVY in March 1982. Re-registered B-HVY in Oct 1997 and scrapped at Kemble in 2008.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/VR-HVY/526865
This airframe as G-KILO with British Cargo at LHR in June 1981:
www.flickr.com/photos/pslg05896/19658760473
VR-HVYY with Cathay Pacific Cargo at HKG in May 1997 (later colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/hilifta/18637700444
This airframe as B-HVY with Cathay Pacific Cargo at MAN in June 2005:
www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding/6456270707
This airframe as N747KD at Kemble in June 2008:
www.flickr.com/photos/andrew_court/8205704068
N747KD’s cockpit at St Athan in November 2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/15110856@N02/50570302257
Scan from slide (unknown brand).
Made for the second Global Challenge of LCC.
"Mark of Falworth continued on his quest, the hermit's directions were precise, in a certain cave only accessible at low tide on the west coast of Lenfald just a few miles away form the Hut previously seen.
It was there that Mark found the fantastic sword of King Karlamac. He would return it to the present king as quickly as possible, For the Glory of Loreos!!!"
Please check out my LCC GC2 Entry Set.
Erode WAP-4 #22306 arrives at Shoranur Junction with late running 12521 Barauni - Ernakulam Raptisagar Express. ED WAP-4 #22218 can also be seen which came with Dhanbad / Tata Nagar - Alappuzha Express.
Photo André Knoerr, Genève. Reproduction autorisée avec mention de la source.
Utilisation commerciale soumise à autorisation spéciale préalable.
En raison de travaux dans le secteur, la composition BDeh 4/4 82 + Bt 64 arrive sur la voie face à la gare.
22306
The Boeing Collection - a tribute to the Boeing 747 'Queen of the Skies' From a collection of some 500 Boeing slides that I've had scanned from my archives. Hope they will provide some enjoyment and nostalgia from a bygone age.
The rare one :)
Whilst having a very large fleet of passenger 747s, British Airways operated just the one pure freighter 747 - and unlike most aircraft in the BA fleet which flew with the airline for many years, G-KILO operated for the airline for just 18 months before it was sold off to Cathay Pacific Cargo as VR-HVY!
The aircraft is seen here being towed round from the cargo area on the south side of the airport to the BA maintenance area at the eastern end of the airport. I had parked up on the perimeter road at the time to take photos of departing aircraft on runway 28R and grabbed this shot. Note the Side Cargo Door (SCD) which can just be made out on the port side of the aircraft.
Around 1980, British Airways experimented with an 'American' style abbreviated name of 'British' seen here. The experiment was quite short-lived.
G-KILO 'British Trader' c/n 22306 Boeing 747-236F was delivered new to British Airways as a pure freighter in Sep 1980, but only flew with the airline for 18 months, before passing to Cathay Pacific in March 1982. It was renamed 'Hong Kong Trader' and flew with the airline for 15 years as VR-HVY, re-registered B-HVY in October 1997 when Hong Kong became an autonomous region of China. It flew for another ten years before finally being retired in 2008, after a 28 year flying career, being permanently retired at Kemble, UK at the end of April 2008. The aircraft was sold to Midair Ltd and re-registered N747KD a few days later in early May 2008. The aircraft was stripped of reusable parts and was broken up on site in October 2008.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm telephoto lens. From an original slide, scanned without any restoration
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
This Boeing 747-236F took its first flight on September 19, 1980...(c/n 22306/ 480)
30/09/1980 British Airways G-KILO
15/03/1982 Cathay Pacific VR-HVY
01/01/1991 Royal Air Force VR-HVY
02/03/1991 Cathay Pacific VR-HVY
21/10/1997 Cathay Pacific B-HVY stored 03/2008 - scrapped at Kemble 05/2008
scan of a slide in my collection and not my own shot...
Made for the Second Global challenge of LCC
Mark of Falworth politely paid his respects to the High Lord Godfrey Wenseclaus II and Lord Teherean at the capitol of Stonewald. After which he searched through the ancient records of Lenfald for the location of the lands once held by the Duke Wirklich Nervig, the last known owner of the Sword of King Karlamac. Mark discovered that the area he was searching for lay south of Armendahls Mountains and he set out with his companions thither.
Upon arriving, at the area previously described, Mark and his followers inquired if there were any persons of great age that could be found nearby, the peasants however, refused to cooperate and only by a gift of some Loreesi silver were the peasants willing to answer the foreigners questions.
The locals told Mark that a very ancient Hermit by the name of Everwinus bolso could be found on the coast a few miles away.
Truly, no better spot for a hermit could be found, situated on a pinnacle of rock, miles from any other habitation sat the hut of the old man.
Mark told his companions to wait a ways off while he talked to the old recluse.
The conversation starting with Mark
“Hello there good sir! I bid thee good day!” (Mark had to speak somewhat loudly for the ocean crashed underneath them.)
“Who be the likes of you!?” Replied the hermit.
“We are knights of Loreos, and we’ve come to ask yo…”
What did you say you were!? Interrupted the hermit.
“We are knights of Loreos!!”
“There’s no need to yell laddie, I ain’t deaf yet. Wait! What be Loreesi doin’ this far north!?” “Is there war!?” He said, clutching his knotted staff with both his hands.
“No, No! In truth, an alliance was announced many months ago.”
“Oh, that be something!”
“Yes, Well, I would like to…”
“So why be ye here!?”
“I was just getting to that good sir…”
“Directions Perhaps?”
“No. I wanted to ask you about the sword of King Karlamac, once owned by Duke Wirklich Nervig.”
“Do you know anything about it?”
The hermit was silent for a minute. “No, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“I think you do.”
“Maybe I do, Maybe I don’t.”
“Good sir, If I were to find the sword I would immediately return it to the king who would use it to bring peace to this troubled land.”
“However, if I do not find the sword it may fall into the wrong hands and plunge the realm into a terrible war, worse than ever before seen!! Worse than can be imagined!!!”
The hermit’s eyes grew very wide.
“And do you know who people will blame for this calamity.”
The hermit swallowed hard.
“Unless you can help me, I fear the kingdom will be undone.”
“Well, when you put it that way...” “I guess I will be glad to help you.“ The hermit said with a nervous grin.
For the Glory of Loreos!!!
The Boeing Collection - a tribute to the Boeing 747 'Queen of the Skies' From a collection of some 500 Boeing slides that I've had scanned from my archives. Hope they will provide some enjoyment and nostalgia from a bygone age.
The rare one :)
Whilst having a very large fleet of passenger 747s, British Airways operated just the one pure freighter 747 - and unlike most aircraft in the BA fleet which flew with the airline for many years, G-KILO operated for the airline for just 18 months before it was sold off to Cathay Pacific Cargo as VR-HVY!
The aircraft is seen here taxiing round to the cargo area on the south side of the airport. I just happened to be driving round the perimeter road at the time and grabbed this shot. According to my log book it was operating flight BA3671. As far as I can remember, all the BA cargo flights had four-figure flight numbers. Note the Side Cargo Door (SCD) clearly seen here on the port side of the aircraft.
Around 1980, British Airways experimented with an 'American' style abbreviated name of 'British' seen here. The experiment was quite short-lived.
G-KILO 'British Trader' c/n 22306 Boeing 747-236F was delivered new to British Airways as a pure freighter in Sep 1980, but only flew with the airline for 18 months, before passing to Cathay Pacific in March 1982. It was renamed 'Hong Kong Trader' and flew with the airline for 15 years as VR-HVY, re-registered B-HVY in October 1997 when Hong Kong became an autonomous region of China. It flew for another ten years before finally being retired in 2008, after a 28 year flying career, being permanently retired at Kemble, UK at the end of April 2008. The aircraft was sold to Midair Ltd and re-registered N747KD a few days later in early May 2008. The aircraft was stripped of reusable parts and was broken up on site in October 2008.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm telephoto lens. From an original slide, scanned with minimal restoration
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
The Boeing Collection - a tribute to the Boeing 747 'Queen of the Skies' From a collection of some 500 Boeing slides that I've had scanned from my archives. Hope they will provide some enjoyment and nostalgia from a bygone age.
Cathay Pacific was another one of the colourful new airlines to grace the Gatwick tarmac in the 1980s after deregulation took place. They operated a huge fleet of 65 Boeing 747s over the years, but VR-HVY was special as it was their only freighter at the time, and a far less common visitor to Gatwick. The aircraft was bought from British Airways and entered service in March 1982. The aircraft is seen taxiing for a runway 26 take off. Note the Side Cargo Door (SCD) clearly seen here on the port side of the aircraft.
G-KILO 'British Trader' c/n 22306 Boeing 747-236F was delivered new to British Airways as a pure freighter in Sep 1980, but only flew with the airline for 18 months, before passing to Cathay Pacific in March 1982. It was renamed 'Hong Kong Trader' and flew with the airline for 15 years as VR-HVY, re-registered B-HVY in October 1997 when Hong Kong became an autonomous region of China. It flew for another ten years before finally being retired in 2008, after a 28 year flying career, being permanently retired at Kemble, UK at the end of April 2008. The aircraft was sold to Midair Ltd and re-registered N747KD a few days later in early May 2008. The aircraft was stripped of reusable parts and was broken up on site in October 2008.
Cathay Pacific was founded by Australian businessman Syd de Kantzow and American Roy Farrell as an air charter operator. Cathay began cargo operations in 1946 with a DC-3 between Shanghai and Sydney. In 1959 it bought its first turboprop, a Lockheed L-188 Electra and the same year (after takeover of Hong Kong Airways) it acquired a fleet of Vickers Viscounts. In 1962 the airline's first jet, a Convair CV-880 was delivered. Since 1975, Cathay chose the wide-body Lockheed L-1011 Tristar as the mainstay of its fleet. In 1980, Cathay expanded its route network to Europe, and hence acquired a fleet of Boeing 747s. These two types were the only aircraft operated by Cathay in the 1980's. Info courtesy of: rzjets.net/operators/?show=357
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm telephoto lens. From an original slide, scanned with minimal restoration
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
ED WAP-4 #22306 led 22643 Ernakulam - Patna Superfast Express skips Ernakulam Town and crosses 12075 CLT - TVC Jan Shatabdi.
And another sacked bus. This one ex Gainsborough MAN 22306 AE51RYB ending it's stagecoach life at Hull seen ending it's day of 1/2s after being fixed up especially for Hull Fair week
6303 Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, VA 22306
Example of the signage in this store. It's a different variation of project impact.
Walmart opened here Oct. 27, 2010. This space was previously a Kmart store, then a Builders Square.
Made for the second Global Challenge of LCC.
"Mark of Falworth continued on his quest, the hermit's directions were precise, in a certain cave only accessible at low tide on the west coast of Lenfald just a few miles away form the Hut previously seen.
It was there that Mark found the fantastic sword of King Karlamac. He would return it to the present king as quickly as possible, For the Glory of Loreos!!!"
6303 Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, VA 22306
Old Kmart Garden Center sitting unused. This Walmart does not have a garden center.
Walmart opened here Oct. 27, 2010. This space was previously a Kmart store, then a Builders Square.
6303 Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, VA 22306
Walmart opened here Oct. 27, 2010. This space was previously a Kmart store, then a Builders Square.
Scan of Postcard sent 1975
Isle of Skye - Ferry & Caisteal Maol, Kyleakin; Dunvegan Castle; Cuillins from Sligachan Burn; Portree.
Produced by J. Arthur Dixon PIS/22306
FAM Fuerza Aerea Mexicana, AgustaWestland AW109SP GrandNew C/N 22306, reg. XC-LNO. Flying over Mexico City (MEX/MMMX), in another local flight.
Typ: 4achsige Elektrolokomotive, Baureihe 3600, Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL)
Vorbild: 3601
Modell: H0, DC, Kurzkupplungskulisse, NEM-Schacht [1]
Informationen:
[1] TRIX Neuheiten 2003: Seite 85
Leihgabe: ALO A333.1563
Pasting from the Wikipedia page on the Rosetta Stone:
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The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta, and transported to England in 1802. Once in Europe, it contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing, through the work of the British scientist Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text on the stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repeal of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples. Two Egyptian-Greek multilingual steles predated Ptolemy V's Rosetta Stone: Ptolemy III's Decree of Canopus, 239 BC, and Ptolemy IV's Decree of Memphis, ca 218 BC.
The Rosetta Stone is 114.4 centimetres (45.0 in) high at its highest point, 72.3 centimetres (28.5 in) wide, and 27.9 centimetres (11.0 in) thick.[1] It is unfinished on its sides and reverse. Weighing approximately 760 kilograms (1,700 lb), it was originally thought to be granite or basalt but is currently described as granodiorite of a dark grey-pinkish colour.[2] The stone has been on public display at The British Museum since 1802.
Contents
• 1 History of the Rosetta Stone
• 5 Notes
History of the Rosetta Stone
Modern-era discovery
In preparation for Napoleon's 1798 campaign in Egypt, the French brought with them 167 scientists, scholars and archaeologists known as the 'savants'. French Army engineer Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard discovered the stone sometime in mid-July 1799, first official mention of the find being made after the 25th in the meeting of the savants' Institut d'Égypte in Cairo. It was spotted in the foundations of an old wall, during renovations to Fort Julien near the Egyptian port city of Rashid (Rosetta) and sent down to the Institute headquarters in Cairo. After Napoleon returned to France shortly after the discovery, the savants remained behind with French troops which held off British and Ottoman attacks for a further 18 months. In March 1801, the British landed at Aboukir Bay and scholars carried the Stone from Cairo to Alexandria alongside the troops of Jacques-Francois Menou who marched north to meet the enemy; defeated in battle, Menou and the remnant of his army fled to fortified Alexandria where they were surrounded and immediately placed under siege, the stone now inside the city. Overwhelmed by invading Ottoman troops later reinforced by the British, the remaining French in Cairo capitulated on June 22, and Menou admitted defeat in Alexandria on August 30.[3]
After the surrender, a dispute arose over the fate of French archaeological and scientific discoveries in Egypt. Menou refused to hand them over, claiming they belonged to the Institute. British General John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore, refused to relieve the city until de Menou gave in. Newly arrived scholars Edward Daniel Clarke and William Richard Hamilton agreed to check the collections in Alexandria and found many artifacts that the French had not revealed.[citation needed]
When Hutchinson claimed all materials were property of the British Crown, a French scholar, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, said to Clarke and Hamilton that they would rather burn all their discoveries — referring ominously to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria — than turn them over. Clarke and Hamilton pleaded their case and Hutchinson finally agreed that items such as biology specimens would be the scholars' private property. But Menou regarded the stone as his private property and hid it.[4]
How exactly the Stone came to British hands is disputed. Colonel Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner, who escorted the stone to Britain, claimed later that he had personally seized it from Menou and carried it away on a gun carriage. In his much more detailed account however, Clarke stated that a French 'officer and member of the Institute' had taken him, his student John Cripps, and Hamilton secretly into the back-streets of Alexandria, revealing the stone among Menou's baggage, hidden under protective carpets. According to Clarke this savant feared for the stone's safety should any French soldiers see it. Hutchinson was informed at once, and the stone taken away, possibly by Turner and his gun-carriage. French scholars departed later with only imprints and plaster casts of the stone.[5]
Turner brought the stone to Britain aboard the captured French frigate HMS Egyptienne landing in February 1802. On March 11, it was presented to the Society of Antiquaries of London and Stephen Weston played a major role in the early translation. Later it was taken to the British Museum, where it remains to this day. Inscriptions painted in white on the artifact state "Captured in Egypt by the British Army in 1801" on the left side and "Presented by King George III" on the right.
Translation
Experts inspecting the Rosetta Stone during the International Congress of Orientalists of 1874
In 1814, Briton Thomas Young finished translating the enchorial (demotic) text, and began work on the hieroglyphic script but he did not succeed in translating them. From 1822 to 1824 the French scholar, philologist, and orientalist Jean-François Champollion greatly expanded on this work and is credited as the principal translator of the Rosetta Stone. Champollion could read both Greek and Coptic, and figured out what the seven Demotic signs in Coptic were. By looking at how these signs were used in Coptic, he worked out what they meant. Then he traced the Demotic signs back to hieroglyphic signs. By working out what some hieroglyphs stood for, he transliterated the text from the Demotic (or older Coptic) and Greek to the hieroglyphs by first translating Greek names which were originally in Greek, then working towards ancient names that had never been written in any other language. Champollion then created an alphabet to decipher the remaining text.[6]
In 1858, the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania published the first complete English translation of the Rosetta Stone as accomplished by three of its undergraduate members: Charles R Hale, S Huntington Jones, and Henry Morton.[7]
Recent history
The Rosetta Stone has been exhibited almost continuously in the British Museum since 1802. Toward the end of World War I, in 1917, the Museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London and moved the Rosetta Stone to safety along with other portable objects of value. The Stone spent the next two years in a station on the Postal Tube Railway 50 feet below the ground at Holborn.
The Stone left the British Museum again in October 1972 to be displayed for one month at the Louvre Museum on the 150th anniversary of the decipherment of hieroglyphic writing with the famous Lettre à M. Dacier of Jean-François Champollion.
In July 2003, Egypt requested the return of the Rosetta Stone. Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, told the press: "If the British want to be remembered, if they want to restore their reputation, they should volunteer to return the Rosetta Stone because it is the icon of our Egyptian identity". In 2005, Hawass was negotiating for a three-month loan, with the eventual goal of a permanent return.[8][9] In November 2005, the British Museum sent him a replica of the stone.[10] In December 2009 Hawass said that he would drop his claim for the return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum loaned the stone to Egypt for three months.[11]
Inscription
In essence, the Rosetta Stone is a tax amnesty given to the temple priests of the day, restoring the tax privileges they had traditionally enjoyed from more ancient times. Some scholars speculate that several copies of the Rosetta Stone must exist, as yet undiscovered, since this proclamation must have been made at many temples. The complete Greek portion, translated into English,[12] is about 1600–1700 words in length, and is about 20 paragraphs long (average of 80 words per paragraph):
n the reign of the new king who was Lord of the diadems, great in glory, the stabilizer of Egypt, but also pious in matters relating to the gods, superior to his adversaries, rectifier of the life of men, Lord of the thirty-year periods like Hephaestus the Great, King like the Sun, the Great King of the Upper and Lower Lands, offspring of the Parent-loving gods, whom Hephaestus has approved, to whom the Sun has given victory, living image of Zeus, Son of the Sun, Ptolemy the ever-living, beloved by Ptah;
In the ninth year, when Aëtus, son of Aëtus, was priest of Alexander and of the Savior gods and the Brother gods and the Benefactor gods and the Parent-loving gods and the god Manifest and Gracious; Pyrrha, the daughter of Philinius, being athlophorus for Bernice Euergetis; Areia, the daughter of Diogenes, being canephorus for Arsinoë Philadelphus; Irene, the daughter of Ptolemy, being priestess of Arsinoë Philopator: on the fourth of the month Xanicus, or according to the Egyptians the eighteenth of Mecheir.
THE DECREE: The high priests and prophets, and those who enter the inner shrine in order to robe the gods, and those who wear the hawk's wing, and the sacred scribes, and all the other priests who have assembled at Memphis before the king, from the various temples throughout the country, for the feast of his receiving the kingdom, even that of Ptolemy the ever-living, beloved by Ptah, the god Manifest and Gracious, which he received from his Father, being assembled in the temple in Memphis this day, declared: Since King Ptolemy, the ever-living, beloved by Ptah, the god Manifest and Gracious, the son of King Ptolemy and Queen Arsinoë, the Parent-loving gods, has done many benefactions to the temples and to those who dwell in them, and also to all those subject to his rule, being from the beginning a god born of a god and a goddess—like Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, who came to the help of his Father Osiris; being benevolently disposed toward the gods, has concentrated to the temples revenues both of silver and of grain, and has generously undergone many expenses in order to lead Egypt to prosperity and to establish the temples... the gods have rewarded him with health, victory, power, and all other good things, his sovereignty to continue to him and his children forever.[13]
Idiomatic use
The term Rosetta Stone came to be used by philologists to describe any bilingual text with whose help a hitherto unknown language and/or script could be deciphered. For example, the bilingual coins of the Indo-Greeks (Obverse in Greek, reverse in Pali, using the Kharo??hi script), which enabled James Prinsep (1799–1840) to decipher the latter.
Later on, the term gained a wider frequency, also outside the field of linguistics, and has become idiomatic as something that is a critical key to the process of decryption or translation of a difficult encoding of information:
"The Rosetta Stone of immunology"[14] and "Arabidopsis, the Rosetta Stone of flowering time (fossils)".[15] An algorithm for predicting protein structure from sequence is named Rosetta@home. In molecular biology, a series of "Rosetta" bacterial cell lines have been developed that contain a number of tRNA genes that are rare in E. coli but common in other organisms, enabling the efficient translation of DNA from those organisms in E. coli.
"Rosetta" is an online language translation tool to help localisation of software, developed and maintained by Canonical as part of the Launchpad project.
"Rosetta" is the name of a "lightweight dynamic translator" distributed for Mac OS X by Apple. Rosetta enables applications compiled for PowerPC processor to run on Apple systems using x86 processor.
Rosetta Stone is a brand of language learning software published by Rosetta Stone Ltd., headquartered in Arlington, VA, USA.
The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone to last from 2000 to 12,000 AD. Its goal is a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,500 languages.
Rosetta Stone was also a pseudonym used by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) for the book "Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo"
See also
• Decree of Canopus, stele no. 1 of the 3-stele series
Notes
• Allen, Don Cameron. "The Predecessors of Champollion", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 144, No. 5. (1960), pp. 527–547
• Adkins, Lesley; Adkins, Roy. The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs. HarperCollins, 2000 ISBN 0-06-019439-1
• Budge, E. A. Wallis (1989). The Rosetta Stone. Dover Publications. ISBN 0486261638. http://books.google.com/books?id=RO_m47hLsbAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=rosetta+stone&as_brr=3&sig=ACfU3U1_VaJ_NxkLmbZuYyDLji99DXwY6w.
• Downs, Jonathan. Discovery at Rosetta. Skyhorse Publishing, 2008 ISBN 978-1-60239-271-7
• Downs, Jonathan. "Romancing the Stone", History Today, Vol. 56, Issue 5. (May, 2006), pp. 48–54.
• Parkinson, Richard. Cracking Codes: the Rosetta Stone, and Decipherment. University of California Press, 1999 ISBN 0-520-22306-3
• Parkinson, Richard. The Rosetta Stone. Objects in Focus; British Museum Press 2005 ISBN 978-0-7141-5021-5
• Ray, John. The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. Harvard University Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0-674-02493-9
• Reviewed by Jonathon Keats in the Washington Post, July 22, 2007.
• Solé, Robert; Valbelle, Dominique. The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics. Basic Books, 2002 ISBN 1-56858-226-9
• The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle, 1802: Volume 72: part 1: March: p. 270: Wednesday, March 31.
References
• ^ "The Rosetta Stone". http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosetta_stone.aspx. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
• ^ "History uncovered in conserving the Rosetta Stone". http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_index/h/history_uncovered_in_conservin.aspx. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
• ^ Downs, Jonathan, Discovery at Rosetta, 2008
• ^ Downs, Jonathan, Discovery at Rosetta, 2008
• ^ Downs, Jonathan, Discovery at Rosetta, 2008
• ^ See University of Pennsylvania, Philomathean Society, Report of the committee [C.R. Hale, S.H. Jones, and Henry Morton], appointed by the society to translate the inscript on the Rosetta stone, Circa 1858 and most likely published in Philadelphia. See later editions of circa 1859 and 1881 by same author, as well as Randolph Greenfield Adams, A Translation of the Rosetta Stone (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925.) The Philomathean Society holds relevant archival material as well as an original casting.
• ^ Charlotte Edwardes and Catherine Milner (2003-07-20). "Egypt demands return of the Rosetta Stone". Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/1436606/Egypt-demands-return-of-the-Rosetta-Stone.html. Retrieved 2006-10-05.
• ^ Henry Huttinger (2005-07-28). "Stolen Treasures: Zahi Hawass wants the Rosetta Stone back—among other things". Cairo Magazine. http://www.cairomagazine.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=1238&format=html. Retrieved 2006-10-06. [dead link]
• ^ "The rose of the Nile". Al-Ahram Weekly. 2005-11-30. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/770/he1.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-06.
• ^ [1] "Rosetta Stone row 'would be solved by loan to Egypt'" BBC News 8 December 2009
• ^ "Translation of the Greek section of the Rosetta Stone". Reshafim.org.il. http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/rosettastone.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
• ^ "Text of the Rosetta Stone". http://pw1.netcom.com/~qkstart/rosetta.html. Retrieved 2006-11-26.
• ^ The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (2000-09-06). "International Team Accelerates Investigation of Immune-Related Genes". http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2000/ihwg.htm. Retrieved 2006-11-23.
• ^ Gordon G. Simpson, Caroline Dean (2002-04-12). "Arabidopsis, the Rosetta Stone of Flowering Time?". http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/296/5566/285?ijkey=zlwRiv/qSEivQ&keytype=ref&siteid=sci. Retrieved 2006-11-23.
External links
• Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Rosetta Stone
• Wikisource has original text related to this article: Text on the Rosetta Stone in English
• Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Greek Text from the Rosetta Stone
• The Rosetta Stone in The British Museum
• More detailed British Museum page on the stone with Curator's comments and bibliography
• The translated text in English – The British Museum
• The Finding of the Rosetta Stone
• The 1998 conservation and restoration of The Rosetta Stone at The British Museum
• Champollion's alphabet – The British Museum
• people.howstuffworks.com/rosetta-stone.htm
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