NELC 064 Lecture 13: NELC 064 CLASS 13 10-15
26 Dec 2015
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204-180 bc child when comes to the throne. Ptolemy v comes to age celebrating at age 12: high priest of ptah. Greek anakleteria + consecration by egyptian priests at memphis. Ivory tags recording the pharaoh taking place in this festival to recharge him after 30 years of reign. Synod (meeting): rosetta stone comes out of this. Scholars began looking at texts on stone. Takes 20 years for scholars to begin to figure out how egyptian text: average person in egyptian times couldn"t read hieroglyphs (2- worked. Young copied out the hieroglyphic words he had deciphered. Egyptic coptic represented the final stage of ancient language. Honors to apis bull and other sacred animals. Ptolemy v: husband of cleopatra i: not brother and sister, seleucid royal family. King and queen cleopatra: make dedigation at philae to asklepios: the. Stele dated to 180 bc: when bull died / Cut by priests of the god khunum.
