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Identifier: decreesofmemphis01budg (find matches)
Title: The decrees of Memphis and Canopus
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Rosetta stone Decree of Canopus Inscriptions, Egyptian
Publisher: New York : H. Frowde London : K. Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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one contains fourteen lines only, whichcorrespond roughly to the last twenty-eight lines of theGreek version, and more than one-half of this version ofthe Decree is wanting; the Demotic version containsthirty-two lines of text, and the first fourteen lines areimperfect at the beginnings ; the Greek version con-tains fifty-four lines of text, and the last tweuty-six areimperfect at the ends. A large portion of the missinglines of the Hieroglyphic version can be restored from acopy of the Decree which is inscribed on the walls of atemple at Philae (see illustration on page 20),^ and fromthe text on the Damanhur Stone, which contains anabbreviated copy of the Decree in hieroglyphics, andwas inscribed fourteen years after the Eosetta Stonewas made. The beginnings of the linesof the Demotic version havebeen restored with considerable accuracy by Brugsch,Eevillout, and Hess, and we are justified in considering It is reproduced by Lepsius in his DenkmaleVy Abtheilung iv.,Rl. 20. t^lM CI !PB^
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^^mW;t^.Ml \ ;im rg^li-^-F Portion of a copy of the Decree!on the Rosetta Stone cut in hierogljphics upon a wall of a temple at Philae.;^ The text was partiallj obliterated by the scenes which were sculptured on the wall by a king who reigned after Ptolemy V., in whose time the Decree was promulgated by the priests of Ptah at Memphis. ROSETTA STONE DESCRIBED 21 that we possess this important document in a completeform. This is a very important thing, for there is noreason to donbt that the Decree was first drawn up inDemotic, and that the renderings in hieroglyphics andGreek were drawn up later. Formerly I thought thatthe Hieroglyphic and Demotic versions were made fromthe Greek. The ends of the twenty-six lines of theGreek version were admirably restored by the eminentphilologist Porson, very soon after the discovery of theStone, and the fact that his restorations have beenaccepted by scholars generally is an eloquent testimonyto their correctness. Thus we may conclude that weknow th

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