Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, 1999
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- Title
- Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
- Author
- Parkinson, Richard
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0520222482
- ISBN 13
- 9780520222489
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- 839.146 grams
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- 1.91 centimeters width by 21.59 centimeters height by 27.94 centimeters depth
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The Rosetta Stone is a fragment of a stela inscribed with a priestly decree in honor of Ptolemy V. The main significance of the text lies not in its content, however, but in the fact that it is written in three scriptshieroglyphic, demotic, and ancient Greek. Early Orientalists recognized immediately the potential of the Stone for the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Thomas Young made great advances, especially with the demotic text, but it was Jean-François Champollion who made the final breakthrough in 1822. In so doing he cracked much more than two Egyptian scripts: He opened up Egyptian culture as a whole to historians.
Among the subjects discussed in Cracking Codes are the relationship between hieroglyphs and art, the social prestige of literacy, and the power of writing and its practical aspects (scribal equipment and training). A brief description of other decipherments is also given, drawing on examples such as Linear B and Meroitica language which remains to be read.
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