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The Rosetta Stone, 3rd of a 3-stone series, is a multilingual stele that allowed linguists to begin the process of hieroglyph decipherment.The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text. The text is made up of three translations of a single passage, written in two Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic), and in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta, a harbor on the Mediterranean coast in Egypt, and contributed greatly to the decipherment of the principles of hieroglyphic writing in 1822 by the French scholar Jean-François Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text of the Rosetta Stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repealing of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples.
The Stone is 114.4 centimeters high at its tallest point, 72.3 centimeters wide, and 27.9 centimeters thick (45 1/16th in. high, 28 7/8ths in. wide, 11 in. thick). Weighing approximately 760 kg (1,676 pounds), it was originally thought to be granite or basalt but is currently described as granodiorite and is dark blue-pinkish-grey in color. The stone has been on public display at The British Museum since 1802.
This fellow, like many of us, has had a hard week. I imagine he is looking forward to a nice spring weekend. How about you? I know I am!
TGIF and thanks for the visits!
Alice Walker said:
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.
Trees can be contorted, bent in their weird ways, and they are all beautiful"
Winter wisteria in Park & Tilford Gardens
Created with fd's Flickr Toys
Yesterday I got a "Skink" pancake set with a pinhole, a zone plate and a photon sieve. I tested the zone plate without tripod, natural light, high ISO. here are the results!
even if you were horrifically disfigured
in a freak accident and looked like this,
i'd still love you.
“To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.”
Buddha
After an adventure living abroad in Asia followed by a life changing experience I am happy to be back in the USA! Visit my Flickr 2 at Maurice J. Cooper
“Loving myself is accepting the fact that I am not perfect. That I am not the best person in the world, that I am still a flawed human being struggling in the most beautiful way to make sense of the things around me but in the eyes of others who matter enough that’s enough. I know it seems...
January 5, 2011. "In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful." -Alice Walker