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Rosetta Stone (top), eight hieroglyphs with sounds they represent (bottom).
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Title
Rosetta
Stone
(top)
,
eight
hieroglyphs
with
sounds
they
represent
(bottom)
.
Cultural Context
Egyptian
Ancient Egyptian
African
North African
Middle Eastern
Style/Period
Egyptian (ancient)
Theme
Writing (processes)
Scripts (writing)
Hieroglyphics
Demotic
Hieratic
Pictographs
Phonetic signs
Letters (signs)
Lowercase letters
Sound (acoustics)
Symbols
Figures (representations)
Birds
Animals
Drawings (visual works)
Stelae
Fragments
Writings (document genre)
Text (layout feature)
Inscriptions
Subject
Writing
Writing systems
Hieroglyphics
Sounds
Symbols
Birds
Animals
Drawings
Figure drawings
Stelae
Inscriptions
Description
Rosetta
Stone
(top)
, with its
three
tiers
of
writing
(hieroglyphic
,
hieratic
,
demotic)
and
eight
hieroglyphs
with the
sounds
they
represent
(bottom)
. From the "
Hieroglyphic
,
Hieratic
, and
Demotic
Writing
"
section
of the "
Art
of
Ancient
Egypt
"
chapter
(Chapter
3)
.
Material
Stone (rock)
Rock
Technique
Drawing (image-making)
Carving (processes)
Work Type
Writing systems
Stelae
Drawings
Source
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New York: Abrams, 1995. (Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, and Demotic Writing, diagram, Ch. 3, p.113)
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
338-06.jpg
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