Egypt Asks British Museum For Rosetta Stone

The Art Newspaper ^ | 6-21-2007 | Martin Bailey

[UnklGene]

Rosetta Stone

[snowsislander]

That’s the thing about the BM, nothing in it is British.

Well, I thought this piece in the British Museum one of the most impressive that I have seen anywhere, and it is certainly from Britain (the Snettisham find):

[nicollo]

Year 9, Xandikos day 4

The Youth who has appeared as King in the place of his Father', the Lord of the Uraei 'Whose might is great, who has established Egypt, causing it to prosper, whose heart is beneficial before the gods', (the One) Who is over his Enemy 'Who has caused the life of the people to prosper, the Lord of the Years of Jubilee like Ptah-Tenen, King like Pre', [the King of the Upper Districts and] the Lower Districts 'The Son of the Father-loving Gods, whom Ptah has chosen, to whom Pre has given victory, the Living Image of Amun', the Son of Pre 'Ptolemy, living forever, beloved of Ptah, the Manifest God whose excellence is fine', son of Ptolemy and Arsinoe, the Father-loving Gods, (and) the Priest of Alexander and the Saviour Gods and [the Brother-and-Sister Gods and the] Beneficent [Gods] and the Father-loving Gods and King Ptolemy, the Manifest God whose excellence is fine, Aetos son of Aetos; while Pyrrha daughter of Philinos was Prize-bearer before Berenice the Beneficent, while Areia daughter of Diogenes was [Basket]-bearer [before Arsi]noe the Brother-loving, and while Eirene daughter of Ptolemy was Priestess of Arsinoe the Father-loving: on this day, a decree of the mr-sn priests and the hm-ntr priests, and the priests who enter the sanctuary to perform clothing rituals for the gods, and the scribes of the divine book and the scribes of the House of Life, and the other priests who have come from the temples of Egypt [to Memphis on] the festival of the Reception of the Rulership by King Ptolemy, living forever, beloved of Ptah, the Manifest God whose excellence is fine, from his father, who have assembled in the temple of Memphis, and who have said:

Whereas King Ptolemy, living forever, the Manifest God whose excellence is fine, son of King Ptolemy [and Queen] Arsinoe, the Father-loving Gods, is wont to do many favours for the temples of Egypt and for all those who are subject to his kingship, he being a god, the son of a god and a goddess, and being like Horus son of Isis and Osiris, who protects his father Osiris, and his heart being beneficent concerning the gods, since he has given much money and much grain to the temples of Egypt, [he having undertaken great expenses] in order to create peace in Egypt and to establish the temples, and having rewarded all the forces that are subject to his rulership; and of the revenues and taxes that were in force in Egypt he had reduced some or(?) had renounced them completely, in order to cause the army and all the other people to be prosperous in his time as [king; the arrear]s which were due to the King from the people who are in Egypt and all those who are subject to his kingship ....

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[blam]

I'll hide these here in this hole until this battle is over then I'll come back and get them.

[Joe Boucher]

This is aid given by the U.S.A., I bet it is a lot more when you add up all the other western countries.
And I’d also bet most goes to corruption bribes and b.s.
Oh yeah and as credits so the egyptian military will buy American military stuff.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

The British...

Thieves if the World

You want to see the beard of the Sphinx, the Partheonon, go to the British Museum. etc etc etc

[blueheron2]

“I will give guarantees for their safe return,” he promised

Muslim promises are worth what? Not even a stone is safe in a muslim country.

[blam]

[blueheron2]

One of the most pathetic, vile, sights I’ve ever seen. I read somewhere that there weren’t any older buildings in Mecca. They’ve all been bulldozed to build new ones for the tourists. They have no connection to the past(or the future for that matter) except the koran.

[billbears]

The people living in Egypt today are arabic they have no relation to the makers of the Rosetta Stone

Oh okay. Their culture changed not their blood. They have more of a claim to it than the British

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. The BM will turn 'em down, just as the Germans turned down the request for the Nefertiti bust. Hawass turned that one into a demand for the return of the bust, not as a loan, but because it was taken from Egypt.

I think the only important thing missing from Egypt is freedom, and that will only return when Islam is wiped off the face of the Earth.

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[GoLightly]

Sure you want all of us coming back “home”?

[zeugma]

I hope the Brits give them nothing but a postcard.

[RightWhale]

the bust of Hemiunu, builder of the Great Pyramid

They know? Somebody said everything we know is wrong. Not only that, but everything we know is irrelevant, especially if it a Goethe maxim.

[bannie]

Dear Egypt,

No.

[UnklGene]

Thanks, Nicollo!

[Peanut Gallery]

R1b1

[Peanut Gallery]

Noah would appear to be the most recent common ancestor, no?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, UnklGene.

Zeugma, a postcard for the Egyptians. :’)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854788/posts?page=41#41

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Noah would appear to be the most recent common ancestor, no?

He appears long after aboriginals settle in Australia and the Americas, a not so wee problem for creationism, unless creationists can demonstrate mutation at light speed.