The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

by Arthur John Booth

[124] Texier (Ch. F. M.), Description de l’Arménie (1842-52), i. xv.

[125] Kinneir (J. Macdonald), Geographical Memoir (1813), p. 126. Flandin estimates the distance at eight kilomètres. See Menant, Les Achéménides, p. 129. Murray says vaguely, ‘near’ Hamadan (Handbook, Asia Minor, p. 328). Curzon uses the same expression (i. 566).

[126] Morier, Second Journey, p. 267.

[127] Porter, ii. 120.

[128] Rich (C. J.), Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, ii. 126.

[129] Vaux (W. S. W.), Nineveh and Persepolis (London, 1851), p. 441, note A. J. R. A. S. (1882), vol. xiv., article on Van by Professor Sayce.

[130] Elvend, O and F; Van, K.

[131] Rich, Koordistan, i. xvi, xviii.

[132] Rich, Koordistan, ii. 186.

[133] Ib. p. 215.