How does the text's language signal its organizational
pattern?
Read the passage about the Rosetta Stone.
Another, more complete copy of the same decree that
appeared on the Stone was found on a slab at Philae in
1848. Fuller translations of the hieroglyphic text soo
followed. A Latin version came out in 1851, a French one in
1867, and an English one in 1871.
Then, in 1887, yet another copy of the decree-this
almost intact-was unearthed in the ruins of a temple in
Lower Egypt. Now, for the first time, scholars had a version
of the hieroglyphic text that they could compare line-for-lin
with the Greek and demotic v
-The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Giblin
It creates a mental image of the hieroglyphic text.
It sets up a problem and suggests how it could be solved.
It uses time-oriented signal words and discusses events
in sequence.
It describes the similarities and differences between the
cultures that translated the text.
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