The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

by Arthur John Booth

[329] Heeren, Werke, xi. 342.

[330] Grotefend’s views on this point were explained in the Fundgruben des Orients, vol. v. pt. 3. See Grotefend, Neue Beiträge (1840), p. 7.

[331] Dorow, op. cit. p. 26. Cf. Grotefend, Neue Beiträge (1840), p. 23.

[332] Dorow, pp. 32, 38, 41. He recurs to this subject in Neue Beiträge (1840), pp. 6 and 7, and refers for his original treatment of it to Fundgruben des Orients, vol. iv. pt. 4, and vol. vi. pt. 2.

[333] Dorow, p. 42.

[334] Erläuterung über einige Babylonische Cylinder (1820), by Grotefend; and Nachträgliche Bemerkungen which follow it.

[335] Cf. J. R. A. S. 1848 (Annual Report, 1846) p. vii. Holtzmann, Beiträge zur Erklärung der Persischen Keilinschriften (Carlsruhe, 1845), p. 13.

[336] Neue Beiträge (1837), p. 17.

[337] Ib. p. 25.

[338] Ib. p. 35.