The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

by Arthur John Booth

[204] Kinneir, Geographical Memoir, p. 100; Porter, ii. 411; Curzon, ii. 309.

[205] Kinneir, p. 92.

[206] Ib. p. 100.

[207] W. K. Loftus, Chaldæa and Susiana (1857), pp. 417-19. A sketch of the stone may be seen in Walpole’s Travels in Turkey, ii. 426, and is reproduced in Loftus, p. 419.

[208] Ouseley, i. 420.

[209] Rawlinson, Memoir, p. 63; Bonomi, Nineveh and its Palaces (1889), p. 479; Loftus, p. 344; J. R. A. S. xii. 482. This inscription was long known as the Susra Inscription, from the name of the king as deciphered by Rawlinson.

[210] Layard, Early Adventures, pp. 352-6.

[211] Layard, ib. p. 167. For drawings see Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Persia, p. 378.

[212] Loftus (W. Kennett), Chaldæa and Susiana (1857), p. 343.

[213] Ib. p. 352.