Title and Description Writing Quiz

The purpose of the decree was to affirm the royal cult of Ptolemy V on the first anniversary of his coronation.

Hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Ancient Greek.

It is unknown whether identical copies of the declaration were placed in every temple across Egypt.

<p>It provided the same message inscribed in three types of writing, allowing scholars to use the Greek inscription as a key to decipher hieroglyphs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ptolemy V.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The text on the Rosetta Stone was a copy of a prototype that was composed about a century earlier in the 3rd century BC.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It became the property of the British under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria after Napoleon's defeat.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The French scholar Jean-François Champollion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is a decree passed by a council of priests affirming the royal cult of Ptolemy V.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The British Museum.</p> Signup and view all the answers