Rosetta-style engraving lauding Cleopatra and two Ptolemaic Pharaohs unearthed in Egypt

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13 February 2015 - 2201 Mark Miller

Rosetta-style engraving lauding Cleopatra and two Ptolemaic Pharaohs

unearthed in Egypt

A 2200-year-old Rosetta-style limestone stele has been found at an ancient site near the

Mediterranean Sea and the city of Aleandria in yt$ houh archaeoloists and ytoloists

haampent decihered the entire meanin yet they say that li(e the Rosetta stone the stele found

this )ee( commemorates ancient ytian royalty in this case t)o tolemaic haraohs and

+ueen leoatra$

his findin dates to the rein of tolemy ihanes 20 $$ to 10 $$ of the tolemaic

ynasty 332 $$ - 30 $$ he tolemys ruled yt after the death of Aleander the reat in

323 $$

Antiuties Minister Mamdouh el-amaty said on Faceboo( that the imortance of this discoampery

lies in the different scrits it )as inscribed in$ he stele has hierolyhs and an aarent

translation into demotic scrit$ emotic )as a lanuae used by the common eole )hile

royals and the uer class used hierolyhics$

he stele resembles the Rosetta Stone )hich )as inscribed in the ninth year of (in tolemy 4s

rein$ hat is t)o years after the aosiris Mana stele )as inscribed$ he ne) find is an eact



coy of a stele from the hilae emle near As)an )hich also dates to tolemy s rein$ n it

the haraoh offered a lare area of 6ubia to the oddess sis and her riests$

The world famous Rosetta Stone ( Wikimedia Commons )

The Rosetta Stone in translation into English beins by laudin 7orus and sayin tolemy is the

8Son of the Sun9 and the beloamped of tah



n the t)enty-fourth day of the month RAS )hich corresondeth to the t)enty-fourth

day of the fourth month of the season R of the inhabitants of A-MR lt= in the

t)enty-third year of the rein of 7RgtS-RA the 7 )ho hath risen as in uon the throne

of his father the lord of the shrines of 67 and gtA7 the mihty one of t)o-foldstrenth the stablisher of the )o ands the beautifier of yt )hose heart is erfect or

beneampolent= to)ards the ods the 7RgtS of old )ho ma(eth erfect the life of the

hamentet beins the lord of the thirty-year festiampals li(e A7 the soamperein rince li(e RB

the in of the South and 6orth Neterui-merui- tui- uā-setep-en-Ptaḥ -usr-ka-Rā-ānkḥ-a983137 a983137

sekḥem- menA983137 the Son of the Sun Ptolemy tḥe ever-living tḥe beloved of Ptaḥ the od )ho

ma(eth himself manifest$

he Rosetta Stone decree aears in three scrits Ancient ytian hierolyhs emotic scrit

and Ancient ree($ ecause it resents essentially the same tet in all three scrits it roampided

the (ey to the modern understandin of ytian hierolyhs$

The Taposiris Magna Temple

he stele )as found at aosiris Mana temle on a(e Mariout by archaeoloists )ith the

atholic gtniampersity of Santo omino )or(in )ith yts Sureme ouncil of Antiuities$

Seamperal other imortant finds haampe been made at aosiris includin beautiful statues from)hich the heads )ere remoamped centuries ao ironically ossibly by atholic iconoclasts see(in

to stam out the ancient ytian reliion$



Ruins of the Osiris Temple at Taposiris Magna (Photo by Koantao Wikmedia Commons )

he Sureme ouncil of Antiuities r$ Cahi 7a)ass said in 2010 )hen a lare tolemaic

statue )as found 8the mission has discoampered a collection of headless royal statues )hich may

haampe been subDected to destruction durin the yEantine and hristian eras$ A collection of

heads featurin +ueen leoatra )as also uncoampered alon )ith 2 metal coins bearin

leoatras face$9

Hawass said in 2010 the headless statue 8is ampery )ell reseramped and miht be one of the most

beautiful statues caramped in the ancient ytian style$9 t may be an imae of tolemy )ho

had the aosiris Mana temle comle constructed$

A beheaded statue possibly of Ptolemy found at Taposiris Magan in $ (Supreme ounampil of

Antiuties photo)

he head of the ominican ytian Mission r$ athleen MartineE said in si years at

aosiris Mana Site theyampe made many imortant discoamperies about ancient Aleandria$ MaDor

discoamperies include tombs of nobles statues of the sis and many bronEe coins sho)inleoatra$



eatured image The stele has hieroglyphiamp and demotiamp insampriptions and measures $ inamphes ($+ ampm) by

+- inamphes (-+ ampm) by inamphes ($ ampm) ( Photo by Egyptrsquos Ministry of Antiquities )

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coy of a stele from the hilae emle near As)an )hich also dates to tolemy s rein$ n it

the haraoh offered a lare area of 6ubia to the oddess sis and her riests$

The world famous Rosetta Stone ( Wikimedia Commons )

The Rosetta Stone in translation into English beins by laudin 7orus and sayin tolemy is the

8Son of the Sun9 and the beloamped of tah



























leoatras face$9





Antiuties photo)








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leoatras face$9





Antiuties photo)








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Rosetta-style engraving lauding Cleopatra and two Ptolemaic Pharaohs unearthed in Egypt

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