Humanities 2nd grading Grade 6

• The rosetta stone

  
• the rosetta stone was made in 196 bc
• Ptolemy V issued the decree in the rosetta stone
• rosetta stone is 16 paragraphs
• The french army discovered the rosetta stone in 1799
• Jean- Francois Champollion

  
• Champollion was a french scholar, philologist, and an orientalist
• champollion mastered 12 languages by the age of 17
• champollion translated parts of the rosetta stone by demonstrating
• tableau de signes phonetiques

  
• champollion outlined the greek letters on the first column, the egyptan demotic
• by 1824, champollion, in addition, discovered that the hierolgyphics were used not just in the case of foreign names
• thomas young knew many languages at a young age of 14
• thomas young studied medicine in london, england
• thomas young would not write his real name in order to protect himself
• thomas young wrote a letter to the father of john bakes

  
• john bakes was a traveller and was in egypt at the time of writing
• pot decorated with a boat

  
• the pot is color pink
• the wavy lines represent water
• pottery wine jar with a mud seal

  
• the purpose of the pottery wine jar is offering
• colossal bust of ramesses ii

  
• giovanni belzoni

  
• belzoni was the one who got the statue of colossal bust of rameses ii.

  belzoni got it in 1816
• Colossal granite head of amenhotep lll

  
• the statue wears a double crown, to signify the unity of upper egypt and lower egypt
• Bronze figure of isis and horus: the divine mother nursing her infant

  
• isis is the divine mother. she is the wife of orisis
• orisis is the god of death
• those images were placed by rich people in temples for protection.
• bronze statuette of the moon god iah

  
• iah is the moon god. his name means moon
• thoth is the god of knowledge, writing and calculation
• bronze figure of horus pe performing a ritual dance

  
• horus pe is a falcon headed deity
• Painted limestone statue of nenkheftka

  
• Upper part of a limestone statue of queen Ahmose-Merytamun

  
• Giovanni belzoni discovered the upper part of a limestone
• "hathor wig" is the wig worn in the "upper part of a limestone statue of queen ahmose merytamun"