Comment on Was the intention of the Rosetta Stone to preserve history?
lethargic_lemming@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The stone was a part of a steele that was displayed in a temple.
The translated text is essentially an announcement or decree for a new Egyptian regime, and wasn’t necessarily written with the intent to preserve history.
The reason why it’s in three languages is because each of those languages served a different purpose.
“hieroglyphs (suitable for a priestly decree), Demotic (the cursive Egyptian script used for daily purposes, meaning ‘language of the people’), and Ancient Greek (the language of the administration – the rulers of Egypt at this point were Greco-Macedonian after Alexander the Great’s conquest.”
You can read more about it here or do your own research. britishmuseum.org/…/everything-you-ever-wanted-kn…
Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Thank you for that. It may have simply been a reminder about the knew 13 year old ruler, but there is always a conspiracy to fantasize about.
What happened in the 3rd century? Why did they choose to only make a prototype? How deep does this go?
lethargic_lemming@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not sure - you’d have to do some research on what that article is referencing. Search “Decree of Memphis” - that’s essentially what’s written on the Rosetta Stone.
For the history of those decrees you may want to look into “Ptolemaic decrees”