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...Such translations were furnished by the records of the Achaemenian kings of Persia. The first problem was therefore to read the old Persian after which the reading of the Babylonian was sure to follow. Inscriptions from Persepolis furnished the material. After the unsuccessful attempts of various scholars, Georg Friederich Grotefend, of Hanover, in 1802, found the key, by applying a formula of the old Pehlevi inscriptions to the shorter cuneiform inscriptions from Persepolis. Grotfeend made out several of the letters accurately and several others proximately, but his material was too limited for him to do much more than read...
Babylonian Books. Their decipherment by Grotefend and Rawlinson. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Professor Lyon will deliver, this afternoon, in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, his second lecture on Babylonian Books. The subject of today's lecture will be "The decipherment of the Babylonian Books by Grotefend and Rawlinson," and the lecture will be made doubly interesting by photographic slides and copies of these books...
...FRIDAY.Babylonian Books. Their decipherment by Grotefend and Rawlinson. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...first discoveries in Persian Cuneiform, at the beginning of the century, by Grotefend, Lessen, Rawlinson and others, and the gradual decipherment of the second and third columns of the trilingual inscription of Behistun - the Median and Assyrian...
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