The Time Machine 9

For those who need it and for a fresh reminder here are the 9 key things we have to include in the presentation:

1) A clear introduction to your presentation, which should also mention the different published sources you have used and your reasons for choice. You should use no less than 5 published sources to inform your presentation.

2) A clear definition of key ideas relating to your given topic, with supporting evidence in the form of, no less than, 3 quotations from 3 different published sources. Quotations must be interpreted and their importance discussed, they should also be referenced correctly using the Harvard method.

3) The cultural context (political and social) in which the topic came out of/was in reaction to.

4) An illustrated ‘who’s who’ of key individuals associated with given topic, with a clear explanation of what you think their significance is and why.

5)  Historical examples of key words/images/artefacts associated with given topic and an assessment of their importance.

6) Contemporary examples of key words/images/artefacts associated with given topic and a comparison to the historical examples.

7) A ‘bullet point’ conclusion.

8) A bibliography and illustration list correctly set out using the Harvard method.

9) A PDF version of presentation for uploading to myUCA.

review

hi everyone we both think it is important to meet up asap and discuss further our presentation and our own research if you could let us know when is best for you ?
many thanks

Rough Presentation Plan

After our meeting the other day I've decided to put up a rough plan of the presentation so that we all can see it.

Intro:

• What is the Rosetta Stone
• Sources and why

3 Key Points:

• Discovery of a lost culture
• Relation to the philosophy of Enlightenment
• Relation to Neoclassicism

Cultural Context:

• 3 forms of language
• Hierarchy 

Who's Who:

• Young
• Bankes and Belzoni
• Champollion

Historical Examples:

• Ptolemy V
• Obelisk
• Use of Steles

Contemporary Examples:

• Rosetta Project
• Joseph Kosuth Replica
• Mary Kelly

Conclusion

The Rosetta Stone

I have been looking into the dates that surround The Rosetta Stone to help with creating a timeline like we discussed so this is what I gathered so far.

　

The Rosetta Stone itself is a valuable key to the decipherment of hieroglyphs. The inscription on the Rosetta Stone is a decree passed by a council of priests. It is one of a series that affirm the royal cult of the 13-year-old Ptolemy V on the first anniversary of his coronation.The decree is inscribed on the stone three times in three different languages. First hieroglyphic (suitable for a priestly decree), second demotic (the native script used for daily purposes), and third Greek (the language of the administration).Because the Rosetta Stone presents essentially the same text in all three scripts, it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

 

Soon after the end of the fourth century AD, when hieroglyphs had gone out of use, the knowledge of how to read and write them disappeared. In the early years of the nineteenth century, some 1400 years later, scholars were able to use the Greek inscription on this stone as the key to decipher them. Thomas Young, an English physicist, was the first to show that some of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name, that of Ptolemy. The French scholar Jean-François Champollion then realized that hieroglyphs recorded the sound of the Egyptian language and laid the foundations of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian language and culture.

　

Soldiers in Napoleon's army discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799 while digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta). On Napoleon's defeat, the stone became the property of the　British under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria (1801) along with other antiquities that the French had found. The Rosetta Stone was transport to the British Museum and has been on exhibition since 1802, with only one break. Towards the end of the First World War, in 1917, when the Museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London. They moved it to safety along with other, portable, 'important' objects. The Rosetta Stone spent the next two years in a station on the Postal Tube Railway, 50 feet below the ground at Holborn. Ever since its rediscovery, the stone has been the focus of nationalist rivalries. Including its transfer from French to British possession during the Napoleonic Wars. Also a long-running dispute over the relative value of Young's and Champollion's contributions to the decipherment, and since 2003, demands for the stone's return to Egypt.

I looked at the work by Joseph Kosuths work and he actually began to produce work in 1965 with a basis on language where he linked images, object and texts into simple and self-referential pieces. From this Kusuth's pieces are linguistic in character because they express definition of art.

Joseph Kosuths piece on the Rosetta Stone is kept at Jean-Francois Champollion's birth place and i found that it is is also situated on the "Place des Ecritures" which when translated means "Writings Place".

I've found something which personally I found quite interesting which we can connect the Rosetta Stone being brought forward into the modern day as well as into the future.

Through some research i have found a group of people who have called themselves "The Rosetta Project" and together have produced a modern day version of the Rosetta Stone. Useing a non-corroding metal (nickle is mentioned in one account) which measures 3 inches and has been microscopically engraved with the languages of the world. The text would originally take up 15,00 pages of text however this writing can only be seen using a 500x microscope. Only a few have been produced and currently cost £25,000 each.

The idea behind "The Rosetta Project" is for it to be the modern day Rosetta Stone for the people thousands of years in the future with its intent on preserving as much information as possible on currently spoken languages as it is feared that many existing world languages will become extinct by then end of the century.

Also just discovered an American conceptual artist named Joseph Kusoth i thought this might move our subject into the now as he recreated a giant version of the Rosetta stone which was placed at the birth place of Jean Francois Champollion this was made recently and i think would be a good reference to an artist inspired by the Rosetta Stone
see link below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Place_des_ecritures_Figeac.jpg

british museum

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosetta_stone.aspx


Hi everyone taken from what we spoke about in our meeting today i had a look at the British museum achieves above is a link to the website page on the Rosetta Stone it all so has some book references which we might find interesting.

Meet up

Hey everyone

Seeing as how tomorrow is our self directed study for the Time Machine project Sasha and I were thinking that we could meet up at some point and get a move on with the project.

If you can come, I am going to propose we meet up in the library around 11ish but it depends really when you're available.