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INTRODUCTION
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symptomatic only of a passing phase of irritation, for the evidence on the other side seems too overwhelming to be long withstood.[1]
It is because the trilingual inscriptions have rendered such important service that we have considered it worth while to recount the history of their discovery after they had lain forgotten for some two thousand years, and to explain the steps that were taken in the work of decipherment by the many scholars whose patient toil was ultimately rewarded with success.
- ↑ On this subject see Sir Henry Howorth, English Historical Review, April 1898; Weissbach (F. H.), Zur Lösung der Summnerischen Frage, 1897; and especially Mr. Pinches' 'Sumerian or Cryptography,' J. R. A. S. 1900.
