The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

by Arthur John Booth

[54] This view may have been suggested by Chardin, who was known to Hyde. (Hyde, p. 548, note.)

[55] Hyde, Vet. Pers. Hist. p. 557. Cf. Menant, p. 65.

[56] See Voyages de Monsieur le Chevalier Chardin (Amsterdam, 1711), iii. 98 ff, Plates 52-74; but four of these are devoted to copies of the inscriptions (Pl. 69-73).

[57] Voyages du Chevalier Chardin (ed. Langlès, Paris, 1811), viii. 242-318.

[58] Chardin, Voyages, viii. 401.

[59] A New Account, by J. Fryer (London, 1698), p. 251.

[60] Chardin, viii, 321-3.

[61] Now known as Inscription L. Not to be confounded with the L of Niebuhr.

[62] Ib. pp. 343, 347-51.

[63] Ib. p. 385.