The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

by Arthur John Booth

[801] Journal Asiatique, ix. 378; ‘Lettre à Letronne,’ Revue Archéologique, 1848, p. 466.

[802] Cf. Rev. Archéol. 1848, p. 504.

[803] Rev. Archéol. ib. p. 503. See Oppert, Expédition, p. 123.

[804] J. R. A. S. Dec. 1847, ix. 439.

[805] Athenæum, Aug. 23, 1851.

[806] J. R. A. S. 1848, vol. ix.

[807] ‘On the Khorsabad Inscription,’ Trans. R. I. Acad. xxii. 12.

[808] Transactions, xxi. 241, 247.

[809] Ib. xxii. 328; Athenæum, Sept. 21, 1850, p. 1000.

[810] ‘It will appear,’ he says later on, ‘that I consider the syllabary to be of Indo-European origin.’ In 1852 he adds: ‘The characters all represent syllables, and were originally intended to represent a non-Semitic language.’ Transactions, xxii. 57; ib. p. 295.