The Rosetta Stone is one of these copies, so not particularly important in its own right. It says that the priests of a temple in Memphis (in Egypt) supported the king.
The decree was copied on to large stone slabs called stelae, which were put in every temple in Egypt. The writing on the Stone is an official message, called a decree, about the king ( Ptolemy V, r.
It was an important clue that helped experts learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs (a writing system that used pictures as signs). It has a message carved into it, written in three types of writing. The Stone is a broken part of a bigger stone slab. The Rosetta Stone and a reconstruction of how it would have originally looked.
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