The trilingual cuneiform inscriptions
by Arthur John Booth
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About this eBook
- Author
- Booth, Arthur John
- Title
- The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions
- Original Publication
- London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902.
- Credits
- Wouter Franssen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PJ: Language and Literatures: Oriental languages and literatures
- Subject
- Achaemenian inscriptions
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 71905
- Release Date
- October 18, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.INTRODUCTION
- 4.TRILINGUAL CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS — CHAPTER I THE DISCOVERY OF ACHAEMENIAN RUINS AND INSCRIPTIONS—BARBARO TO LE BRUYN, A.D. 1472-1718
- 5.CHAPTER II NIEBUHR TO DE MORGAN. A.D. 1765-1897
- 6.CHAPTER III DECIPHERMENT OF THE FIRST OR PERSIAN COLUMN—TYCHSEN TO LASSEN, A.D. 1798-1836.
- 7.CHAPTER IV BEER AND JACQUET TO RAWLINSON—A.D. 1838-1846
- 8.CHAPTER V DECIPHERMENT OF THE SECOND OR SUSIAN COLUMN—WESTERGAARD TO OPPERT—A.D. 1844-52
- 9.CHAPTER VI DECIPHERMENT OF THE THIRD OR BABYLONIAN COLUMN—HINCKS AND RAWLINSON—A.D. 1846-1851
- 10.APPENDICES
- 11.APPENDIX A TABLE SHOWING VALUES ASSIGNED TO THE LETTERS OF THE OLD PERSIAN ALPHABET
- 12.APPENDIX B TABLE SHOWING THE TRUE VALUES OF OLD PERSIAN LETTERS; AND THE AUTHOR AND DATE OF THEIR DECIPHERMENT
- 13.APPENDIX C TABLE SHOWING THE VALUES GIVEN TO EACH SIGN OF THE SUSIAN (MEDIAN) SYLLABARY
- 14.FOOTNOTES
- 15.INDEX
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