It went far beyond the names themselves and gave him an insight into the entire system of hieroglyphic writing. The sun has symbolic meaning in many different cultures.Ĭhampollion knew that the Egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah.Īs he thought about the hieroglyphs in Thothmes' and Ramesses' names, Champollion realized their significance. Several famous names can be found in the Biblical Book of Exodus. Hieroglyphs are both a representation of sounds and symbols. The details in the excerpt point to which big-picture idea? Could this be a hieroglyphic representation of Ramesses' name?
Suddenly he remembered a famous pharaoh whose name appeared in ancient Greek chronicles and also in the Biblical Book of Exodus: Rameses, or Ramesses. Then, at the end, he wrote SS, the sound of the last two hieroglyphs. Next he put a question mark for the unknown middle hieroglyph. He wrote down the first two letters of that sound, RA. The middle hieroglyph was unknown to him, but he guessed that the two at the left symbolized the sun.įrom his studies of Coptic, Champollion knew that the Egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah.
The ancient Egyptians spelled the names of leaders the same way that the Greeks did.Ĭhampollion misspelled "Alexandros" because he incorrectly guessed some of the letters.Īlexander the Great knew how to write in both Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphics.
It was Alexander the Great, spelled "Alexandros" in Greek, and apparently represented as "Alksentrs" in hieroglyphs.Ĭhampollion filled in the gaps in the arrangement:īased on the information in the excerpt, the reader can conclude thatĬhampollion knew that inscriptions on cartouches were often the names of famous leaders. Immediately Champollion thought of the one Greek leader whose name might be identified with this particular combination of letters. When he lined up all the numbers and put the corresponding letters beneath them, he got the following arrangement: Of the nine symbols, Champollion already knew numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8.
He began with another cartouche from the same inscription and numbered each of the hieroglyphs in it. James Morison, Commentary on Mark, Introduction, § 4 Lightfoot on Colossians 4:10).Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin. 423), contend that there were two Marks, one the disciple and companion of Paul mentioned in the Acts and Pauline Epistles, the other the associate of Peter and mentioned in 1 Peter 5:13 (cf. i., 262f)), Kienlen (in the Studien und Kritiken for 1843, p. He was the cousin of Barnabas and the companion of Paul in some of his apostolic travels and lastly was the associate of Peter also: Acts 12:12, 25 Acts 15:37, 39 Colossians 4:10 2 Timothy 4:11 Philemon 1:24 (23) 1 Peter 5:13, cf. He was the son of a certain Mary who dwelt at Jerusalem, was perhaps converted to Christianity by Peter ( Acts 12:11f), and for this reason called ( 1 Peter 5:13) Peter's son. Μᾶρκος, Μάρκου, ὁ, Mark according to the tradition of the church the author of the second canonical Gospel and identical with the John Mark mentioned in the Acts (see Ἰωάννης, 5). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3138: Μᾶρκος