Talk:WikiJournal of Humanities/Rosetta Stone

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First peer reviewer
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 * name   = Adrienn Almásy
 * Q = Q106504996
 * affiliation = The British Museum
 * link   = https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-adrienn-almasy-martin
 * version = https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_Preprints/Rosetta_Stone
 * date   = 15 October 2018
 * pdf    =

Text additions and spelling updates
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 * The Rosetta Stone (British Museum EA24) is a granodiorite stele, found in 1799
 * potential to decipher this previously untranslated hieroglyphic script.
 * Three other fragmentary copies (Reviewer comment: Actually, three copies (one only in Greek, another only in hieroglyphs and one, in three fragments, with the three scripts.)
 * as "4 Xandikos" in the Macedonian calendar and "18 Mekhir" in the Egyptian calendar
 * Aëtus son of Aëtus (Reviewer comment: I would prefer Aetos son of Aetos as written in Greek. Aetus is the Latin variant of the Greek name but this variant is also correct.)
 * inscription in Demotic conflicts with this (Check for same spelling in rest of document)
 * ...out two years later under general Tlepolemus, when Agathoclea (check for same spelling in sentence following as well)
 * add a stele found in Elephantine and in Noub Taha after "...Rosetta Stone: the Nubayrah Stele."
 * According to the museum's records, the Rosetta Stone is its most-visited single object,[48] a simple image of it was the museum's best selling postcard for several decades, [49] and a wide variety of merchandise bearing the text from the Rosetta Stone (or replicating its distinctive shape) is sold in the museum’s retail outlets.
 * He produced a skillful suggested
 * Calls for the Rosetta Stone to be returned to Egypt were made in July 2003 by Zahi Hawass, then Secretary General Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. These calls, expressed in the Egyptian and international media, asked that the stele be
 * ...Egypt with a full-sized fibreglass colour-matched replica of the stele. This was initially displayed in the renovated Rashid National Museum, an Ottoman house in the town of Rashid (Rosetta), the closest major settlement near where the stone was found.[75]
 * ...Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza in 2013.[77] The British Museum has indicated that it will consider all requests to borrow objects from the collection. [78]
 * hydrogen atoms has proved to be the Rosetta Stone...

Comments

 * The British Museum can offer better photos (maybe one taken in the gallery with visitors?)
 * Regarding use of "early Christian" - Late Antiquity would be better as this is the official denomination of the period.
 * Regarding use of "medieval period" - Egypt specific term would be better like Mameluk era. (The link for ‘medieval period’ refers to European history.
 * "...decipherment and, since demands for the stone's return to Egypt." I would erase this as there were demands before this date.
 * "There exists no one definitive English translation ..." S. Quirke – C. Andrews, The Rosetta Stone. Facsimile drawing with an Introduction and Translations, 1988 gives translations of all three texts.
 * Wording suggestion: change "The stele almost certainly..." to "The stele was almost certainly not originally installed at Rashid (Rosetta)"
 * "Three other inscriptions containing the same Memphis decree..." The Philae inscription is not the copy of the Rosetta Stone. See Willy Clarysse: “Ptolémés et temples” In D. Valbelle (ed.) Le décret de Memphis. Colloque de la Fondation Singer-Polignac a l’occasion de la celebration du bicentenaire de la découverte de la Pierre de Rosette. Paris, 1999, p. 42. He has a list of copies of the Rosetta stone. Or the latest: Alexandra Nespoulous-Phalippou, Ptolémée Épiphane, Aristonikos et les prêtres d’Égypte. Le Décret de Memphis (182 a.C.). Édition commentée des stèles Caire RT 2/3/25/7 et JE 44901, CENIM 12, Montpellier, 2015. P. 283-285.
 * Citation update to (35): after "The Rosetta Stone had been deciphered long before they were found, but later Egyptologists, including Wallis Budge" Not page 1 but 3. This is a very old publication. It is better to use the above mentioned publications.
 * Citation update to (6): "...station of the Postal Tube Railway at Mount Pleasant near Holborn." When I follow note 6 (‘The Rosetta stone’ link) it doesn’t give the mentioned information, it leads to the BM’s Collection online. I think the author thought of the Museum’s blog: https://blog.britishmuseum.org/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-rosetta-stone/ rather than the Collection online entry.
 * "ideographic characters imitated from hieroglyphs." Derived from hieroglyphs
 * Replacing ꜣ This sign is a square on the homepage. You can replace it with a ‘3’ if is necessary.
 * Citation correction: "Andrews, Carol (1985). The British Museum book of the Rosetta stone. British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0-87226-034-4." The title is: ‘The Rosetta Stone’

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