PAGE The Assyrian Inscriptions discovered by Botta and Layard : a.d 1843-5 * Botta : * Essai de D6chiffrement ' : a.d. 1845 .... On the Varieties of Writing '. The language of the Babylonian and Assyrian Inscriptions shown to be identical with that of the Third Column — It is Semitic . First attempt to decipher it — Grotefend: a.d. 1824-40 Ltiwenstern on Asdod : a.d. 1845 Ilincks^s Essay of June 1 840 Rawlinson: a.d. 1847 Criticised by Liiwenstem in *Expos6 des Elements*: a.d. 184] Hincks : The Khorsabad Inscription : June 1849 The Appendix : Jan. 1850 Mode of Writing : August 1850. .... Rawlinson: Second Memoir prepared : a.d. 1849 The Two Lectures : Jan. and Feb. 1850 Earliest Assyrian Translation from Black Obelisk , Publication of Third Column of Behistun Inscrip- tion: A.D. 1851 The Services of Hincks and Rawlinson compared The Claims of De Saulcy examined Conclusion .......... M f} M n »»
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398 407 APPENDICES A. — Table showing the different values assigned to each lettrr of the Old Persian Alphabet 420 B. — Table showing the true values of the Old Persian letters and the author and date of their decipherment 426 C. — Table showing the different values given to each sign of the Susian (Median) Syllabary 430 Index . 443 Plan of Perskpolis Frontispiece [The Plan of PersopoUs is inserteil by kind pc^nis^ioIl of Lcrcl Curzon of Ke«lleston Irom bis work ' Persia and the rersiaii Question.']
