Editing Rosetta Stone (section)

===Rivalries===
[[File:Place des ecritures Figeac.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|alt=Photo depicting a large copy of the Rosetta Stone filling an interior courtyard of a building in Figeac, France|A giant copy of the Rosetta Stone by [[Joseph Kosuth]] in [[Figeac]], France, the birthplace of [[Jean-François Champollion]]]]

Even before the Salvolini affair, disputes over precedence and plagiarism punctuated the decipherment story. Thomas Young's work is acknowledged in Champollion's 1822 ''Lettre à M. Dacier'', but incompletely, according to early British critics: for example, [[James Browne (writer)|James Browne]], a sub-editor on the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (which had published Young's 1819 article), anonymously contributed a series of review articles to the ''[[Edinburgh Review]]'' in 1823, praising Young's work highly and alleging that the "unscrupulous" Champollion plagiarised it.<ref>[[#Parkinson99|Parkinson et al. (1999)]]{{Broken anchor|date=2024-06-30|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=#Parkinson99|reason= }} pp.&nbsp;35–38</ref><ref>[[#Robinson09|Robinson (2009)]] pp.&nbsp;65–68</ref> These articles were translated into French by [[Julius Klaproth]] and published in book form in 1827.{{Cref2|N}} Young's own 1823 publication reasserted the contribution that he had made.{{Cref2|L}} The early deaths of Young (1829) and Champollion (1832) did not put an end to these disputes. In his work on the stone in 1904 [[E. A. Wallis Budge]] gave special emphasis to Young's contribution compared with Champollion's.<ref>[[#Budge70|Budge (1904)]] vol. 1 pp.&nbsp;59–134</ref> In the early 1970s, French visitors complained that the portrait of Champollion was smaller than one of Young on an adjacent information panel; English visitors complained that the opposite was true. The portraits were in fact the same size.<ref name="focus47"/>