The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

by Arthur John Booth

[860] Revue Orientale, loc. cit.

[861] Langues perdues, p. 146.

[862] Memoir, p. 172.

[863] Ib. p. 181.

[864] J. R. A. S. Report, 1853, xv. p. xvii.

[865] Ib. Report, 1854, vol. xvi.

[866] Ib. Report, 1854, xvi. p. xiv.

[867] Ib. xii. 477.

[868] See Rassam’s account in Trans. S. B. A. vol. vii. Cf. Hommel, Geschichte, p. 86.

[869] Bertin acknowledges in 1887 that Rawlinson was the first to discover the existence of the Akkadian language (J. R. A. S. 1887, N.S. xix. 644).