Rosetta Stone, Right Side

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
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published on 15 July 2016
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This is right side of the Rosetta stone. We can recognize an English text carved on this side. The text reads "Captured in Egypt by the British Army in 1801".

The Rosetta Stone is a large almost complete fragment of a grey-pink granodiorite stela. A decree was carved on this stela using 3 ancient texts in 3 separate blocks; hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek. This decree was passed by a council of priests. It affirms the royal cult of king Ptolemy V (who was 13-years-old) on the first anniversary of his coronation. It was found at Fort Saint Julien of El-Rashid (Rosetta) city, Egypt in 1799 CE. It was excavated by Pierre-François Bouchard (a French officer in the Engineers at Fort Julien) and was donated to the British Museum by King George III of the United Kingdom in 1802 CE. Ptolemaic Period, 196 BCE. (The British Museum, London).

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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