The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

by Arthur John Booth

[741] Athenæum, Sept. 20, 1884.

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

[743] Journal Asiatique, ix. 377, xi. 266-71.

[744] J. R. A. S. 1848, ix. 414.

[745] The Armenian inscription Schulz, No. 8, was the one De Saulcy attempted (Mohl, Vingt-sept ans d’histoire, i. 350). Nos. 9, 10, and 11 are the trilingual of Xerxes.

[746] J. R. A. S. 1850, x. 410.

[747] Boscawen, The Bible and the Monuments, p. 18; Pinches, S. B. A., 1882, vol. vii. ‘On Assyrian Grammar.’ Cf. Sayce, The Science of Language (3rd ed. 1890), ii. 168.

[748] Beiträge, 1887, pp. 24, 37, 39; 1840, p. 65, Plate. Cf. above, pp. 184, 299.

[749] See these stated by Löwenstern, Essai de Déchiffrement, 1845, p. 12.

[750] Löwenstern, op. cit. p. 13.