_Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London and Bungay._ FOOTNOTES: [1] In this year an elaborate edition of his work was brought out under the title of _Voyages du Chevalier Chardin en Perse, et autres Lieux de l’Orient, Enrichis de Figures en Tailledouce, qui représentent les Antiquités et les Choses remarquables du Païs_ (Amsterdam), two pages (167–8) in vol. ii. being devoted to the inscriptions, the cuneiform being printed on plate lxix. [2] The discovery has sometimes been claimed for Tychsen (_De cuneatis Inscriptionibus Persepolitanis Lucubratio_, 1798, p. 24), but Tychsen supposed that the wedge was used to divide sentences, not words. [3] _Undersögelser om de Persepolitanske Inscriptioner_ (1800), translated into German in 1802. [4] _Ideen über die Politik, den Verkehr und den Handel der vornehmsten Völker der alten Welt_, vol. i. pp. 563 _sqq._; translated into English in 1833. The revival of interest in Grotefend’s work was due to the fact that Champollion, after the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, found the name of Xerxes on an alabaster vase at Paris on which, according to Grotefend’s system, the same name was written in Persian cuneiform. This led the Abbé Saint-Martin, who was a recognized Orientalist, to adopt and follow up Grotefend’s discovery in a Memoir which he read before the French Academy in 1822, and Saint-Martin’s work attracted the attention of Rask and Burnouf. [5] “Om Zendsprogets,” in the _Skandinaviske Literaturselskabs Skrifter_, xxi., translated into German in 1826. [6] _Mémoire sur deux Inscriptions cunéiformes trouvées près d’Hamadan_ (Paris, 1836). [7] _Die Altpersischen Keil-Inschriften von Persepolis_ (Bonn, 1836). [8] _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_, x. [9] _Monument de Ninive_, with plates drawn by Flandin. [10] See his Memoir, “Sur l’écriture assyrienne,” in the _Journal asiatique_, 1847–8, ix.-xi. [11] _Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy_, xxi. pp. 240 _sqq._ See also pp. 114 _sqq._ [12] _Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy_, xxii. pp. 3 _sqq._ [13] Edinburgh Meeting, p. 140. [14] _Revue archéologique_, 1847, pp. 501 _sqq._ [15] _Recherches sur l’écriture cunéiforme assyrienne_ (1849). [16] _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_, xii. pp. 401 _sqq._ The translation of the Black Obelisk inscription is given on pp. 431–48. [17] _Athenæum_, December 27, 1851. [18] In the Paper read by Hincks before the Royal Irish Academy in June 1849, and published the following year. [19] For Hincks’s translation of the annals of Sennacherib, see Layard’s _Nineveh and Babylon_, pp. 139 _sqq._ [20] _Literary Gazette_, July 5, 1846. [21] _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_, xiv. [22] _A List of Assyro-Babylonian Characters_ (1852); also the _Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy_, xxii. (1855), and more especially _The Polyphony of the Assyro-Babylonian Cuneiform Writing_ (1863).