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Title: The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Publisher: N.Y
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Plate III.—THE ROSETTA STONE.; -195 by thehe benefits A slab of black basalt, bearing an inscription decreed between the years b. c.priests of Memphis in honour of Ptolemy V. Epiphanes, king of Egypt, in recognition ot th<conferred by him upon his subjects. It was discovered among the ruins of a fort near the Kosettamouth of the Nile in 1799, and came into the possession of the British Museumin 1801,after the capit-ulation of Alexandria. The inscription is in the Egyptian and Greek languages, the Egyptian por-tion being in hieroglyphics or writing of the priests, and in demotic or writing of the people. Thekey to the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics and the interpretation of the Egyptian lan-guage was obtained from this inscription, a part of the hieroglyphic alphabet being recovered fromthe royal names which are enclosed in oval rings or cartouches. It was ordered that a copy ofthe decree should be set up in every temple of the first, second, and third grade in Egypt.
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Plate IV.—THE MOABITE STONE.(Paris, Museum of the Louvre.)Monument dedicated to the god Kemosh by Mesha, king of Moab, about b. c. 890, to record hisvictory over the Israelites in the days of Ahab, and the restoration of cities and other works whichhe undertook by command of his god. The stone, which measures 3 ft. 10 in. x 2 ft. x 14^ in., andcontains 34 lines of inscription in the Phoenician character, was found at Dibhan in the land of Moabin 1868. It was unfortunately broken in pieces, but about two-thirds of the fragments were recover-ed, and it is possible to give a nearly complete text of the inscription from the paper impressionwhich was taken before the stone was broken.

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