Decree of Canopus

Decree of Canopus
Material	Granodiorite
Size	7 feet 4 inches in height
Writing	Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic, and Koine Greek script
Created	238 BC
Discovered	1866 Tanis, Egypt
Discovered by	Karl Richard Lepsius
Present location	Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt

The Decree of Canopus is a trilingual inscription in three scripts, which dates from the Ptolemaic period of ancient Egypt. It was written in three writing systems: Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic, and Koine Greek, on several ancient Egyptian memorial stones, or steles. The inscription is a record of a great assembly of priests held at Canopus, Egypt, on 7 Appellaios (Mac.) = 17 Tybi (Eg.) year 9 of Ptolemy III = Thursday 7 March 238 BC (proleptic Julian calendar). Their decree honoured Pharaoh Ptolemy III Euergetes; Queen Berenice, his wife; and Princess Berenice.^[1]