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* 196 BC – Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
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File: Rosetta Stone. JPG | Room 4-The Rosetta Stone, 196 BC, key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek.
The date is given as " 4 Xandicus " in the Macedonian calendar and " 18 Meshir " in the Egyptian calendar, which corresponds to March 27, 196 BC.
The year is stated as the ninth year of Ptolemy V's reign ( equated with 197 / 196 BC ), and it is confirmed by naming four priests who officiated in that same year: Aëtus son of Aëtus was priest of the divine cults of Alexander the Great and the five Ptolemies down to Ptolemy V himself ; his three colleagues, named in turn in the inscription, led the worship of Berenice Euergetis ( wife of Ptolemy III ), Arsinoe Philadelpha ( wife and sister of Ptolemy II ) and Arsinoe Philopator, mother of Ptolemy V. However, a second date is also given in the Greek and hieroglyphic texts, corresponding to, the official anniversary of Ptolemy's coronation.
The inscription in demotic conflicts with this, listing consecutive days in March for the decree and the anniversary ; although it is uncertain why such discrepancies exist, it is clear that the decree was issued in 196 BC and that it was designed to re-establish the rule of the Ptolemaic kings over Egypt.
The Rosetta Stone, a tax concession issued by Ptolemy V in 196 BC and written in three languages " led to the most famous decipherment in history — the cracking of hieroglyphics ".
The denomination 196 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Other well-known examples are the Memphis Stele ( Memphis Stone ), bearing the Decree of Memphis, about 218 BC, passed by his son, Ptolemy IV, and the famous Rosetta Stone erected by Ptolemy Epiphanes, his grandson, in 196 BC.
This enterprise earned him the antagonism of the Roman Republic, since Smyrna and Lampsacus appealed to the republic of the west, and the tension grew after Antiochus had in 196 BC established a footing in Thrace.
The Romans supported the Egyptian interests, when they negotiated with the Seleucid king in Lysimachia in 196 BC.
In line with ancient Egyptian tradition, she was also named adelphe (= sister ) of Ptolemy V. A synod of priests held at Memphis in 185 BC transferred all honours that Ptolemy V had received in 196 BC ( written on the Rosetta stone ) to his wife.
This commission was created in 196 BC by a tribunician law on behalf of the people, and their number was later increased to seven ( septemviri epulones ).
The Games of 196 BC were used by Titus Quinctius Flamininus to proclaim the freedom of the Greek states from Macedonian hegemony.
In 196 BC Gaozu left the capital Chang ' an to suppress a revolt in Julu ( 鉅鹿 ; in present-day Xingtai, Hebei ) started by Chen Xi ( 陳豨 ), the Marquis of Yangxia.
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* Armstrong, A., ( 1967 ), The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, pp. 196 – 200.
* 1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground.
* February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people ( all 196 on board and 6 on the ground ).
* October 29 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196, 700 ( the lowest since January 1966 ).
* Gideon Goldenberg, " On Verbal Structure and the Hebrew Verb ", in: idem, Studies in Semitic Linguistics, Jerusalem: Magnes Press 1998, pp. 148 – 196 translation ; originally published in Hebrew in 1985.
* Edward Kasner & James Newman ( 1940 ) Mathematics and the Imagination, pp 196 – 200, Simon & Schuster.
Xian was persuaded by Cao Cao ( 155 – 220 CE ), then Governor of Yan Province in modern western Shandong and eastern Henan, to move the capital to Xuchang in 196 CE.
* Burkert, Walter, Homo Necans ( University of California Press ) 1983, III. 7 " The Return of the Dolphin " pp 196 – 204.
* Ramamonjy, Georges ( 1952 ), " De quelques attitudes et coutumes merina ", dans Mémoires de l ' Institut scientifique de Madagascar ( Tananarive ), série C, Sciences humaines, 1 ( 2 ), 1952, p. 181 – 196.
* Freud, Sigmund ( 1910 ), " The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis ", American Journal of Psychology 21 ( 2 ), 196 – 218.
The University of Manchester had an income of £ 808. 6 million in 2010 – 11, of which £ 196. 2 million was from research grants and contracts.
Deification as the End and Fulfillment of Salvation According to St. Maximos the Confessor — Source: Τὸ Μυστήριον ... mystery of salvation according to St. Maximos the Confessor ( Athens: 1975 ), pp. 180 – 196
* Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, " Eparchius Avitus 5 ", Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-20159-4, pp. 196 – 198.
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