Title

The Rosetta Stone, Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period, 196 BC. Artist: Unknown

Caption

The Rosetta Stone, showing hieroglyphs, demotic, and Greek scripts, Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period, 196 BC. The inscription is a priestly decree affirming the royal cult of the 13-year-old Ptolemy V. From the British Museum's collection.

Date

196th century BC

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/CM Dixon

Reference

HRM19B75_461

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,4Mb (4,0Mb) / 12,1in x 16,2in / 3628 x 4858 (300dpi)

Keywords

country Egypt writing code museum color colour Egyptian Greek Greece inscription location British Museum hieroglyphics document artefact script artifact hieroglyphic Rosetta Stone Ancient Egyptian deciphering decree Ptolemaic inscribed CM Dixon code breaking demotic TGN object Unknown Dixon CM Ptolemy V Epiphanes CM Dixon Mike Dixon Ptolemy V CM Dixon object