The Discovery and Decipherment of the Trilingual Cuneiform Inscriptions
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The Discovery and Decipherment of the Trilingual Cuneiform Inscriptions is accompanied by a plan, and its contents list an introduction to Achaemenian inscriptions. The contents describe those inscriptions as written in three styles of cuneiform character and three different languages, and list the decipherment of the Persian text as the clue to the others. The account of Münter reports that he had identified six signs which he thought expressed vowels, retaining the uncertainty of his proposed readings.
The discussion calls one conjectured sign value less successful than Tychsen's, whose accidental identification supplied the correct value. A translation attributed to Rawlinson describes departure from Nineveh, a crossing of the Euphrates, and the defeat of Ahuni in the city of Sitrat.
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- Arthur John Booth
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- 282
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