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ROSETTA (Coptic Rashit, Arabic Rashid)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 736 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
ROSETTA (Coptic Rashit, Arabic Rashid) , a town situated at the western or "
Rosetta
  " mouth of the Nile on the west bank. It was called Bolbitine by the Greeks, but according to Herodotus the Bolbitine mouth was artificial, and it was evidently of little importance compared with the Canopic, Sebennytic and Pelusiac mouths. When the other branches and the
Alexandria
  canal silted up,
Rosetta
  prospered like its
sister
  port of
Damietta
  on the eastern branch; the main
trade
  of the overland route to India passed through it until Mehemet Ali cut a new canal joining
Alexandria
  to the Nile. Rosetta is now much decayed. Its population in 1907 was 16,81o, almost entirely Mussulman. A railway joins it to Alexandria. The celebrated Rosetta Stone which supplied Champollion with the key for the decipherment of the ancient monuments of
Egypt
  was found near Fort St Julien, 4 M. N. of the town, in 1799, by Boussard, a French officer. It is a basalt stele inscribed in hieroglyphic,
demotic
  and Greek with a decree of the priests assembled at Memphis in favour of
Ptolemy
  V. Epiphanes. It was ceded to the English at the capitulation of Alexandria (18or) and is now in the British Museum. See
EGYPT
 : II. Ancient Egypt, section D. " Writing." (F. LL. G.)


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