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The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions
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10 totalTranscriber’s Note: For this book you will need to have a font installed that can render cuneiform characters such as 𐎠, 𐎡, 𐎢. If these do not display for you, then one suitable option is the font ‘Segoe ui historic’. Cuneiform signs that have no Unicode equivalent are given as images.
INTRODUCTION
TRILINGUAL CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS - CHAPTER I THE DISCOVERY OF ACHAEMENIAN RUINS AND INSCRIPTIONS—BARBARO TO LE BRUYN, A.D. 1472-1718
CHAPTER II NIEBUHR TO DE MORGAN. A.D. 1765-1897
CHAPTER III DECIPHERMENT OF THE FIRST OR PERSIAN COLUMN—TYCHSEN TO LASSEN, A.D. 1798-1836.
CHAPTER IV BEER AND JACQUET TO RAWLINSON—A.D. 1838-1846
CHAPTER V DECIPHERMENT OF THE SECOND OR SUSIAN COLUMN—WESTERGAARD TO OPPERT—A.D. 1844-52
CHAPTER VI DECIPHERMENT OF THE THIRD OR BABYLONIAN COLUMN—HINCKS AND RAWLINSON—A.D. 1846-1851
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Language
en
Duration
~13 hours (769K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902.
Credits
Wouter Franssen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2023-10-18
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Arthur John Booth
A thoughtful Victorian writer who explored big social ideas and the long history of deciphering ancient texts. His books move from early socialism to cuneiform scholarship, showing an unusually wide range of interests.
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