Decree of Canopus - Importance For The Decipherment of Hieroglyphs

Importance For The Decipherment of Hieroglyphs

This is the earliest of the series of bilingual inscriptions of the "Rosetta Stone Series", the next being the Decree of Memphis, for Ptolemy IV, and the third, final stone, being the Memphis Decree Rosetta Stone, inscribed for Ptolemy V, in 196 BCE. Having a greater number of different hieroglyphs than the Rosetta Stone, the Canopus Stone has proved crucial in deciphering them. Two copies of the stele stones exist, in different line widths. (See Ptolemaic Decrees.)

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