Other arts

		STELE WITH A DECREE IN HONOR TO TOLOMEO V Diorite 196 BC. Discovered in !799 in Rosetta. The stele is known with the name of “Stone of Rosetta”, for the place where it was discovered in 1799 by an officer in the Napoleonic army. On it there was a decree from the priests to honor Tolomeo V. The text was engraved in a diorite stone in 196 BC and had been written in hieroglyphic and demotic signs for the Egyptians and in Greek for the Tolomei that governed Egypt in that epoch and for the Greek that lived there. As the document was so important some calques were immediately made, that were put at disposition to those interested, to decipher the hieroglyphics. Confiscated by the English after the defeat of the Napoleonic army, the stele is kept in the British Museum in London and its calque is exposed in the Sanctuary in the Egyptian Museum.
		ISIACA TABLE . In bronze. 75 cm high- I century AC A buy by Savoia from the Gonzaga collection (around half ‘600) the Isiaca Table is an altar table, an Egyptian product made by the Romans, inspired to the Egyptian religious traditions that were greatly diffused in the Roman Empire from the I century AC. It’s probable that the original placing was in a temple dedicated to Iside (Iseo). Discovered in Rome during the raid by the Lanzichenecchi (1527), the Isiaca Table came to the cardinal Pietro Bembo’s collection of antiques and at his death it passed to the Gonzaga collection. The Isiaca Table also called “ The Bembina Table”, from the name of its first owner (the cardinal Pietro Bembo), was the object of accurate researches fromt those who studied Egyptian monuments. The Jesuit Atanasio Kircher and Lorenzo Pignoria also tried to decipher the hieroglyphics.