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<p>[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 3617603, member: 91461"]Pop quiz: How many languages are written on the Rosetta Stone and what are they?</p><p>Answer below.</p><p>I don't have Ptolemy V either... But here's iv... Or possibly Cleo vii</p><p>[ATTACH=full]969260[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ptolemy IV Philopator</p><p>222-205/4 BCE</p><p>Æ (11.5mm, 1.39 g, 12h). Uncertain mint on Cyprus. Diademed head of female (Aphrodite/Arsinoe III or Cleopatra VII?) right / Filleted cornucopia. Svoronos 1161; SNG Copenhagen 649. VF</p><p><br /></p><p>Answer: 3. Egyptian, Greek and... English! Though there are 3 scripts, as stated aptly in the OP, the first 2 are different types of Egyptian (kind of like us writing normal and then cursive. Except their cursive looks A LOT cooler then ours).</p><p>The English being at the very bottom where the overzealous Brits, who lifted this off Napoleon's men btw, wrote "Property of England".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 3617603, member: 91461"]Pop quiz: How many languages are written on the Rosetta Stone and what are they? Answer below. I don't have Ptolemy V either... But here's iv... Or possibly Cleo vii [ATTACH=full]969260[/ATTACH] Ptolemy IV Philopator 222-205/4 BCE Æ (11.5mm, 1.39 g, 12h). Uncertain mint on Cyprus. Diademed head of female (Aphrodite/Arsinoe III or Cleopatra VII?) right / Filleted cornucopia. Svoronos 1161; SNG Copenhagen 649. VF Answer: 3. Egyptian, Greek and... English! Though there are 3 scripts, as stated aptly in the OP, the first 2 are different types of Egyptian (kind of like us writing normal and then cursive. Except their cursive looks A LOT cooler then ours). The English being at the very bottom where the overzealous Brits, who lifted this off Napoleon's men btw, wrote "Property of England".[/QUOTE]
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