The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

by Arthur John Booth

[732] Ib. xi. 249.

[733] Hommel, Geschichte, p. 95, note.

[734] J. R. A. S. 1847, x. 28.

[735] J. R. A. S. x. 22 ff. Rawlinson’s classification of the writing is as follows (1847):

Cuneiform Signs	1. Babylonian	Babylonian proper	Bricks and cylinders (Lapidary)
			East India House Inscription
			Cursive
		Third Persepolitan Column	Practically the same as the Cursive Babylonian
	2. Assyrian	Assyrian proper	Lapidary
			Cursive
		Van
	3. Elymaean (found by Layard at Malamir)

[736] J. R. A. S. xii. 407. Layard, Nineveh and its Remains (1849), ii. 171.

[737] Trans. R. I. Acad. xxi. 131.

[738] Westergaard, Copenhagen edition, p. 271.

[739] Bertin in Trans. S. B. A. 1885, vol. viii. Cf. his article on the Syllabary in J. R. A. S. 1887, vol. xix.

[740] Sayce, Hibbert Lectures, 1887, p. 13.