The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

by Arthur John Booth

[870] J. R. A. S. 1855, xv. 221, note.

[871] Ib. Report, 1856, xvi. p. vii.

[872] Talbot in J. R. A. S. 1862, xix. 196.

[873] Talbot, ib. 1867, N.S. iii. 7. Cf. ib. 1873, vi. p. xxix.

[874] On Akkadian, 1855.

[875] J. R. A. S. Report, June 1866, N.S. ii.

[876] Trans. S. B. A. 1886, ix., article by Mr. Pinches. Dr. Birch’s interest in the subject dates from 1846, when he wrote on the discovery of the name of Babylon, in Proceedings of the Society of Literature.

[877] See Athenæum, Sept. and Oct. 1851; J. R. A. S. 1854-5, and many others.

[878] Athenæum, March and April, 1854.

[879] Layard, Nineveh and Babylon, 1882, p. xlvii.