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Definitions: Rosetta Stone |
Rosetta StoneNoun1. An inscription of a black basalt stone; gave first clue to decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Rosetta Stone (The). A stone found in 1799 by M. Boussard, a French officer of engineers, in an excavation made at Fort St. Julien, near Rosetta. It has an inscription in three different languages- the hieroglyphic, the demotic, and the Greek. It was erected B.C. 195, in honour of Ptolemy Epiphanes, because he remitted the dues of the sacerdotal body. The great value of this stone is that it furnished the key whereby the Egyptian hieroglyphics have been deciphered. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Rosetta Stone is a dark granite stone (often incorrectly identified as "basalt") discovered in the Egyptian port city of Rosetta on July 15, 1799 by French Captain Pierre Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Inscribed on it is a text in Egyptian and Greek, in two languages and three scripts - Egyptian hieroglyphicss, Egyptian demotic script and koine Greek. As Greek was well known, the stone was the key to deciphering the hieroglyphs in 1822 by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion. This led to the translation of other hieroglyphic texts.
The Rosetta Stone is on display at the British Museum in London, where it has been kept since 1802.
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Crosswords: Rosetta Stone |
| English words defined with "Rosetta stone": Champollion ♦ Jean Francois Champollion ♦ Ro-setta stone ♦ Thomas Young ♦ young. (references) |
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Japanese Kanji | ロシア文字 (lock, locker, locker room, lock-file, Lockheed, locking, lockout, logic, logic analyzer, logic programming, logical, logistics, loss, loss leader, loss of time, lost, lost ball, Lost Generation, lost time, rhodium, Rochester, rock, rock fiber, rock music, rock 'n' roll, rock wool, rock-climbing, rocking, rocking chair, rockoon, rose, rosette, Rossignol, roster, Russian character). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ロゼッタストーン . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | osettaray onestay | ||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Petromyzon fluviatilis. (various references) |
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"Rosetta Stone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rossetta stone. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t-t" | |
-3 letters: attesters, attestors, earstones, oestrones, resonates, rottenest, tattooers, testators. | |
-4 letters: arnottos, assenter, assentor, attester, attestor, earnests, earstone, entreats, estreats, estrones, oestrone, ratteens, rattoons, reseason, resonate, restates, retastes, rosettes, sarsenet, seasoner, senators, starnose, stentors, sternest, strettas, strettos, tartness, tattooer, testates, testator, testoons, toasters, tonettes, treasons. | |
-5 letters: arenose, arnotto, atoners, attests, attorns, earnest, eastern, easters, enroots. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t-t" | |
+4 letters: northeasternmost, southeasternmost. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 6F 73 65 74 74 61 53 74 6F 6E 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01101111 01110011 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100001 00100000 01010011 01110100 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R o s e t t a   S t o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 006F 0073 0065 0074 0074 0061 0053 0074 006F 006E 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5281857186866725386818071 |
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