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Collections on the Greek inscription on the Rosetta stone
Catalogue reference: ROS
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ROS
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Title (The name of the record)
- Collections on the Greek inscription on the Rosetta stone
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Date (When the record was created)
- c. 1802
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Description (What the record is about)
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Collections mostly concerning the Greek inscription on the Rosetta stone commemorating the accession of Ptolemy V Epiphanes, from the papers of the Rev. John Brand, Sec. SA. The Rosetta stone was deposited in SA, 1802-3 (see Evans (1956), 199-200; Minute Book XXIX, p.146, and many subsequent communications conc. the inscriptions). The papers consist of annotated transcriptions, notes on related topics mostly from bibliographic sources, and papers relating to casts and the facsimile engraving (1802) by James Basire (Vetusta Monumenta, IV (1815), pl.VII). See also Archaeologia, 16 (1812), 208-63. Bound in at the end a copy of Reflections on the Natural Foundation ... of
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Society of Antiquaries of London
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- SAL/MS/220
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Brand, John (1744-1806), antiquary and historian
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- The library of the Rev. John Brand was sold by W.Stewart, Piccadilly, 6 May 1807, 8 Feb.1808 (see T.F.Dibdin, Bibliomania (1809), 605-11). Presented by William Richard Hamilton, FRS, FSA, 19 Dec.1851 (fol.ii). Proc., 1st ser., 2 (1849-53), 196. See also Proc., 2nd ser., 1 (1859-61), 135-6 (obituary of W.R.Hamilton).
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Society of Antiquaries online catalogue: https://collections.sal.org.uk/ros
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/5fe50dd7-09f4-4054-99df-cfd7ef3bd806/
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Collections on the Greek inscription on the Rosetta stone