Assertion: stele's text | /r/CapableOf | use phonetic characters
Facets:
value: to spell foreign names
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Major advances in the decoding were recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text (1799); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names (1802); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic (1814); and that phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words (1822–1824).