ROSETTA STONE

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Meaning:

A part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics

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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

stela; stele (an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings)

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