Assignment 14 - Mummy Portraits , Rosetta Stone Professor Simmmons PDF

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Mummy Portraits , Rosetta Stone
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Mummy Portraits 1. In the portrait, the boy Eutyches wear what? The boy Eutyches is wearing white Roman tunic with a narrow purple clavus. 2. What language is the inscription on the portrait? Why? The language on the portrait is Greek where the portrait originated from. 3. Where was this portrait placed? This portrait was placed over the head of the mummy . Rosetta Stone 4. What is the subject matter of the decree written on the stone? The subject written on the stone is about that affirms the royal cult of the thirteen-year-old Ptolemy V on the first anniversary of his coronation. 5.How was this stone used by modern scholars to understand Egyptian hieroglyphs? The stone is written in 3 translations of the same decree. By using the Greek translation on the stone as a key to deciphering the others. 6. How did the stone end up at the British Museum? The stone end up at the British museum because of Napoleon’s defeat and the stone became the property of the British under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria (1801)....