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C. 196. The Roman guardianship ; and accordingly, in the ninth year of his reign, the young king was crowned with great pomp at Mem- phis, the ancient capital of the kingdom. Rosetta stone. On this occasion he came to Memphis, by barge, in grand state, where he was met by the priests of Upper and Lower Egypt, and crowned in the temple of Pthah with the double crown called Pschent, the crown of the two provinces. After the ceremony the priests made the Decree in honour of the king, which is carv...ed on the stone known by the name of the Rosetta Stone, in the British Museum. Ptolemy is there styled ' King of Upper and Lower Egypt, son of the gods Philopatores, approved by Pthah, to whom Ra has given victory, a living image of Amun, son of Ra, Ptolemy im- mortal, beloved by Pthah, god Epiphanes most gracious. ' In the date of the decree we are told the names of the priests of Alex- ander, of the gods Soteres, of the gods Adelphi, of the gods Euer- ROSETTA STONE. 131 getse, of the gods Philopatores, of the god Epiphanes himself, of Berenice Euergetis, of Arsinoe Philadelphus, and of Arsinoe Phi- lopator.
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