Source and licence
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Attribution: none required by the licence (public domain); please credit the source edition named above.
Licence: public domain — Samuel Sharpe (d. 1881), The Decree of Canopus in Hieroglyphics and Greek, London 1870; public domain by age (LICENCES.md author-death-year rule, verified death year ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier cu31924026869564, fetched 2026-09-10; the Cornell scan carries the printed notice "There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text"
The text
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| 1 | A TRILINGUAL decree (hieroglyphic + Demotic + Greek) — the natural test case for the L0.5 → L1 → L2 pipeline, because the Greek column is an independent check (wish-list entry 50). Rosetta (Memphis) and Canopus are now covered; the RAPHIA decree was not found in an open edition and is still missing. |
| 2 | Staged files: |
| 3 | · corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/sharpe_decree-of-canopus_1870.pdf — 172 pages, 4,505,929 bytes |
| 4 | THE PAGES ARE NOT IN THIS REPOSITORY. This document is a provenance stub: the original is staged under Coptic OCR/corpus/incoming/, with its SHA-256 and the terms as fetched in the README beside it. The catalogue row's `words` count is this stub's, not the volume's. |
Provenance
- title
- Sharpe, The Decree of Canopus in Hieroglyphics and Greek (1870)
- dialect
- none
- source
- corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/sharpe_decree-of-canopus_1870.pdf (staged 2026-09-10 by worker W-B2; provenance, terms as fetched and SHA-256 in corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/README.md)
- licence
- public domain — Samuel Sharpe (d. 1881), The Decree of Canopus in Hieroglyphics and Greek, London 1870; public domain by age (LICENCES.md author-death-year rule, verified death year ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier cu31924026869564, fetched 2026-09-10; the Cornell scan carries the printed notice "There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text"
- share
- public
- file
- Ancient Egyptian/Demotic texts and the trilingual decrees/Sharpe, The Decree of Canopus in Hieroglyphics and Greek (1870).scan.L0.txt
L0 witness
Cite as:
Sharpe, The Decree of Canopus in Hieroglyphics and Greek (1870). corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/sharpe_decree-of-canopus_1870.pdf (staged 2026-09-10 by worker W-B2; provenance, terms as fetched and SHA-256 in corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/README.md). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/ancient-egyptian/demotic-texts-and-the-trilingual-decrees/sharpe-the-decree-of-canopus-in-hieroglyphics-and-greek-1870.scan/.
What the layers are
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.
For Egyptian texts: the transliteration with the editors' marks turned into the symbols ° * < > _ ^ (ruled 2026-09-10). For papyri: the edition's Leiden marks as the same symbols, and the editors' readings beside the scribe's as ‹scribe→editors› (ruled PAP-3).
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.
Quoted translations where they exist, credited; otherwise model drafts, marked as drafts.