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Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts, respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek.
On his tomb is a simple obelisk erected by his wife, and a stone slab stating: Ici repose Jean-François Champollion, né à Figeac dept. du Lot le 23 décembre 1790, décédé à Paris le 4 mars 1832 (Here rests Jean-François Champollion, born at Figeac, Department of the Lot, on 23 December 1790, died at Paris on 4 March 1832). [111]
The Rosetta Stone played a vital role in researchers deciphering hieroglyphics. It was found in 1799, but wasn't fully deciphered until many years later. ... Jean-François Champollion announced ...
Consequently, Young avoided all direct contact with Champollion. [10] When Champollion submitted his Coptic grammar and dictionary for publication in 1815, de Sacy also opposed this. Another student of Sacy was Johan David Åkerblad. He was a Swedish scholar who also contributed significantly to the investigation of the Rosetta Stone.
The acquisition of the Rosetta Stone was tied up in the imperial battles between Britain and France. ... with French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion eventually cracking the language in 1822.
Now Champollion turned to the title of Ptolemy found in the longer cartouches in the Rosetta Stone. Champollion knew the Coptic words that would translate the Greek text and could tell that phonetic hieroglyphs such as p and t would fit these words. From there he could guess the phonetic meanings of several more signs.
Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac. Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (French: [ʃɑ̃pɔljɔ̃ fiʒak]), also known as Champollion l'aîné ('the Elder'; 5 October 1778 – 9 May 1867) was a French archaeologist, elder brother of Jean-François Champollion (decipherer of the Rosetta Stone).
The emperor took with him a force of 500 civilian scientists, specialists in fields such as biology, chemistry and languages, in order to carry out a full study of the ancient civilisation. The work of Jean-François Champollion in deciphering the Rosetta Stone to discover the hidden meaning of hieroglyphics proved the key to the study of ...