Rosetta stone / cast

Description

Plaster cast of the surface of the Rosetta Stone, having a trilingual inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek, in a wooden frame: Ancient Egyptian, Lower Egypt, Rosetta, 196 BC (original), London, UK, 1802 AD (cast)

Museum reference

V.2017.17

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Rosetta stone / cast

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

1802

Materials

Plaster

Physical description

Plaster

Associations

British Museum, London, England, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland vol. 6.2 (1864-66), pp. 339‒401

Regulski, Ilona (2020) 'The Rosetta Stone, Copying an Ancient Copy', in Dimitri Laboury, Vanessa Davies (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 215-228, see 224 n. 11