 | 1865 - 642 pages
...third in Greek. The inscriptions are to the same purport in each, being a decree of the priesthood nt Memphis in honour of Ptolemy Epiphanes about the year...to the interpretation of the Egyptian characters. The next two compartments contain the monuments of the 30th, or last native dynasty, which succeeded... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 594 pages
...captured from the French in a vessel which was conveying it from Egypt to the Louvre. The inscription is "A decree of the priesthood at Memphis in honour of Ptolemy Epiphanes about the year BC 196." Sarcophagus of King Nectanebo I. (BC 378-360), with inside and out elaborate incised representations... | |
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Rosetta stone ; it is a tablet of black basalt, having three inscriptions, two of them in the Egyptian language, but in two different characters (Hieroglyphic and Enchorial), the third in Greek. The inscriptions are to the same purport in each, being... 