Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and DeciphermentUniversity of California Press, 1 Á.¤. 1999 - 208 ˹éÒ Publication to accompany a major 1999 exhibition at the British Museum celebrating the bicentenary of the Stone's discovery, and including a selective catalogue of the exhibits. It also examines the wider issues of script and writing in ancient Egypt and beyond, for example, the relationship between hieroglyphs and art, the social prestige of literacy, and the practical aspects of writing (scibal exquipment and training). Other issues in decipherment are also discussed, such as Linear B and Meroitic, a language which still remains to be read. |
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List of abbreviations and conventions | 7 |
Among the Ruined Languages | 14 |
The Original Context of the Rosetta Stone | 25 |
The Decipherment of the Rosetta Stone | 31 |
The Rosetta Stone after Champollion | 41 |
The Egyptian Language | 47 |
The Classical Egyptian Writing System | 56 |
Further Codes to Crack | 176 |
Other Deciphered and Undeciphered Scripts | 184 |
Decipherment versus Cryptanalysis | 190 |
APPENDIX | 198 |
Chronology | 204 |
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Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment R. B. Parkinson,Whitfield Diffie,Mary Fischer,R. S. Simpson ªÁºÒ§Êèǹ¢Í§Ë¹Ñ§Ê×Í - 1999 |
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18th Dynasty acquired alphabet Amenhotep Amennakht Amun Ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptian Antiquities archaeological artefacts BIBLIOGRAPHY British Museum Cairo caption cartouche carved century Champollion consonants context Coptic copy cultural cursive hieroglyphs decipherment Decree Deir el-Bahri Deir el-Medina demotic Egyptian hieroglyphs Egyptian script Egyptology example figure fragment gods Greek H.R. Hall hieratic hiero hieroglyphic script hieroglyphic signs Hieroglyphic Texts hitherto unpublished Horus incised inscribed inscription King King's Scribe language Late letter limestone linguistic literary logogram London Lord Middle Egyptian Middle Kingdom modern monuments obelisk offering Old Kingdom original Osiris ostracon Oxford painted palette papyrus phonetic pictorial placed priests Provenance unrecorded Purchased Ptolemy Ramesside Ramses Ramses II records right to left Rosetta Stone royal Saqqara scene scholars scribal showing statue stela sun-god temp temple Thebes Thomas Young Thoth tomb translation transliteration true-of-voice vertical lines votive words World's Writing Systems written