Egyptian Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC). Medium: stone. Date: 196 BC. Plundered during Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1799, then ceded to British in 1801; part of a monument containing a decree dated year 9 of Ptolemy V (196 BC); Egyptian inscription in hieroglyphic and demotic scripts and Greek; Provenance: British Museum, London, UK. Photographic Rights held by The Bridgeman Art Library.