User talk:Captmondo/Archives/2011/December

Rosetta Stone stela reconstruction
Hello. I was looking at illustration of what the Rosetta Stone might have originally looked like, and I noticed that Set is one of the gods shown in the lunette at the top. I know that you based the reconstruction on the books listed in the image file, and I don't know how much detail they give on the stone's appearance, but Set's presence seems odd. By the time the stela was made, Set was the villain of the Egyptian pantheon, only invoked in ceremonies that involved his ritual humiliation or destruction. (Before about 1000 BC, he had been much more ambivalent.) He is unlikely to have shown up on official stelae. It's a nit-picky point, I know, but if you have the time, and your sources don't indicate otherwise, perhaps you could replace him with another deity. I suggest Ptah, who was the patron god of the Memphite priesthood and is specifically mentioned on the stone. Unfortunately I don't know anything about working with SVG graphics, so I can't do it myself. A. Parrot (talk) 23:09, 10 December 2011 (UTC)