"Promulgated in 238 B.C., the Canopus Decree was a trilingual inscription carved on stone or bronze in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script and Koine Greek. It is the second in the series of multi-lingual Ptolemaic decrees that would become known as the Rosetta Stone Series, after the famous inscription that provided the key to the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by Jean-Francois Champollion in 1822."
"The decree lavishes Ptolemy and his wife Berenice with praise for this great benefices to the temples of Egypt, their honoring of the gods and the care they take of the sacred animals at their own expense. Ptolemy also gets credit for having gone to war against the Persian Seleucid Empire to reclaim the images of the gods looted from Egyptian temples by Cambyses hundreds of years earlier in 525 B.C."
A complete Ptolemaic-era Canopus Decree sandstone stele was unearthed at Tell el-Pharaeen in the Sharqia governorate, about 80 miles east of Kom el-Hisn. The stela measures 127.5 cm by 83 cm by about 48 cm, has a rounded top crowned by a winged sun disk and royal cobras, and contains 30 lines of hieroglyphic text in sunk relief. Promulgated in 238 B.C., the Canopus Decree is part of the multilingual Ptolemaic decrees known as the Rosetta Stone Series and praises Ptolemy and Berenice for temple benefactions, protection of Egypt, and reclaiming looted cult images.
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