Inscription in honour of Ptolemy V Epiphanes, king of Egypt in the Egyption & Greek
languages;
the Egyptian portion being in heiroglyphics or writing of the priests, &
in demotic or writing of the people.
The key to the decipherment of the
Egyptian heiroglyphics
& the interpretation of the Egyptian language
was obtained from this inscription.
195 BCE. British Museum.
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