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Paper, 'Fascia isiaca statuae capitolinae' [The bust of the Capitoline statue] by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/16/58

Date: 1723

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A printed sheet of possible translations of a series of Egyptian hieroglyphs, followed by a printed parallel text of Latin and Arabic with speeches from an unidentified book, paginated pp 469-472. Subtitle of front page reads 'Nunc primum in lucem edita Melchiore a Brigae Soc: Iesu interprete ad ioannem baptisam ptolemaeum S R E cardinalem amplissimum.' A caption at the bottom of the page reads 'Eruditus est Moyses omni sapientia Eegyptorium [Moses was learned in all the wisdom of Egypt]'.

Subject: Hieroglyphics / Translation

Read to the Royal Society on 28 March 1723. Communicated by Thomas Dereham

Reference number
CLP/16/58
Earliest possible date
1723
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Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
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Printed

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Paper, 'Fascia isiaca statuae capitolinae' [The bust of the Capitoline statue] by unknown author, 1723, CLP/16/58, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_16_58/paper-fascia-isiaca-statuae-capitolinae-the-bust-of-the-capitoline-statue-by-unknown-author, accessed on 18 September 2024

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