Report of the committee appointed by the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania to translate the inscription on the Rosetta stone

Name:

Morton, Henry, 1836-1902; Hale, Charles R. (Charles Reuben), 1837-1900; Jones, Samuel Huntington, 1837-1894; Philomathean Society (University of Pennsylvania)

Date:

1858

Language:

English

Provenance:

Smith, Edgar Fahs, 1854-1928 (donor) (RBC copy 4)

Publisher:

[Printed by L.N. Rosenthal]

Subject:

Egyptian languages -- Inscriptions

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

72 pages, 81 unnumbered pages-127 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 113-120, 129-136 pages, 24 unnumbered pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations; 24 cm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

First ed. of 400 copies; cf. Adams; Bennett.; In manuscript lithography and chromolithography throughout, with text framed by decorative borders by Max Rosenthal and Henry Morton.; The committee consists of Chas. R. Hale, S. Huntington Jones and Henry Morton.; Includes the hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek inscriptions, with translations of each text. Hale translated the Greek and demotic; Morton, the hieroglyphics.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, PJ1531.R4 E54 1858; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, PJ1531.R4 E54 1858 copy 2; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, PJ1531.R4 E54 1858 copy 3; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, PJ1531.R4 E54 1858 copy 4