Rosetta

background to project

long term awareness of history of stone, expedition to British Museum to see stone in July 2003 after 20 years.

Art Work to date :

Performance / Installation

Jigsaw Puzzle, started November 2003, outside completed January 2004

Top section started december 2004, completed February 2005
Lower section - started December 2005, complated February 2006
April 2006 - three sections linked together
Centre section started December 2006,

painting

Rose dawn: started 20/02/07, acrylic on canvas
Three voices: started 20/02/07, acrylic on board

History - a la Wikipedia

The Rosetta Stone is a Ptolemaic era stele inscribed with the same passage of writing in two Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and demotic) and in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta, a harbor on the Mediterranean coast in Egypt, and translated in 1822 by Frenchman Jean-François Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text of the Rosetta Stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repealing of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples.

114.4 cm high, 72.3 cm wide, 27.9 cm thick (45.04 in. high, 28.5 in. wide, 10.9 in. thick). Weighing 760 kg (1,676 pounds), it made is dark grey-pinkish granodiorite and has been kept at the British Museum in London since 1802.

More info about the Rosetta Stone

at the British Museum | on Wikipedia | royal decree | synopsys

related topic : graphology | megaliths