The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

by Arthur John Booth

[144] Pl. 23; P.

[145] Pl. 24, 25, 26; D. See Weissbach und Bang, Die Altpersischen Keilinschriften (1893), pp. 5-10.

[146] Rich, Babylon and Persepolis, pp. 250, 252.

[147] Ib. p. 256.

[148] Ib. pp. 247-55. Cf. Koordistan, ii, 222.

[149] Diod. Sic. ii. 13.

[150] Rawlinson (George), Herodotus edited by (1862), ii. 490; The Five Great Monarchies (1879: referred to as History), iii. 416. Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Persia (Eng. ed., 1892), p. 393, but cf. p. 38.

[151] Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (referred to as J. R. A. S.) x. 193.

[152] This was suggested by Dr. Hincks in the Dublin University Magazine, Jan. 1847, p. 15.

[153] J. R. A. S. x. 187, 192.