Description: Richly annotated digital publication of the ancient Egyptian Rosetta Stone (London, British Museum EA 24). Also provides a TEI/EpiDoc XML file of the Rosetta Stone.
berlin (20264) digital (15236) annotation (91) rosetta stone (30) image map (7) word-by-word (2) british museum ea24 (1) interlinear glossing (1) daniel a. werning johanna werning
This homepage is the outcome of a hands-on university seminar on the digital online presentation of the Rosetta Stone. It is a cooperation of the German Excellence Cluster Topoi and the Department of Archaeology of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin . For this project, the project leaders and the seminar participants combined their expertise in Egyptology, Ancient Greek Linguistics , General Linguistics , and Computer Sciences . A kernel part of the homepage is a full linguistic analysis of the trilingual t
On the Rosetta Stone, an Ancient Egyptian decree from 196 BCE was inscribed in three versions, in three language varieties and scripts:
This type of artefact is called a trilingual . The Rosetta Stone played a crucial role in the famous decipherment of the hieroglyphic script by Jean-François Champollion (see the BBC documentary The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone ).