But the study was now upon the point of entering on an entirely new phase. We have already seen the success with which Burnouf and Lassen applied the discovery made by Grotefend to the long list of names in the I inscription. The visit paid in 1843 by Westergaard to Naksh-i-Rustam resulted in the recovery of a farther list of provinces from the Tomb of Darius. On his return to Germany, he made over his copy of the first column to Lassen, who was best qualified to turn it to account, and he devoted himself to an attempt to decipher the language of the second column. The result appeared in the ‘Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes’ of 1844; and the same year, in English, in the ‘Mémoires des Antiquaires du Nord.’[616] In 1845, the Memoir was republished in German, along with Lassen’s Second Memoir, and this, as the latest, must be regarded as the most authoritative version.[617] The investigation is based upon an analysis of the various proper names contained in the inscriptions. Westergaard began with the well-known names of the Kings which Grotefend had turned to such good account, and afterwards reviewed those of the provinces recently deciphered by Lassen. From these he obtained a sufficient number of values to attempt a transliteration of the more common words occurring in the Persian version, and especially in the well-known form that opens so many of the inscriptions. He has given us a transliteration of this passage, which is the first ever made into Roman characters of a Susian inscription.[618] His work was necessarily based upon Lassen’s defective decipherment of the Persian signs; and it was therefore inevitable that it should reproduce the same erroneous values. He transliterated all the various inscriptions, beginning with those of Xerxes as the shortest and simplest, and proceeding to those of Darius, including the one at Naksh-i-Rustam, which he was the first to copy.[619] It is curious to compare the earliest attempts at transliteration with those subsequently made by Oppert and Weisbach. It will be seen that few of the words in his glossary could now be recognised. He had little opportunity of displaying his skill as a translator, for in this department he implicitly followed Lassen’s rendering of the corresponding Persian column, and we find the same errors in both, from ‘Arça’ downwards; but he concludes with the K inscription, which has no Persian counterpart, and here he achieved a respectable success. He was able to make out sufficient to show that Darius laid claim to the foundation of the Persepolitan platform.[620] In the German edition he omits his adventurous transliterations (as well as the declination of Ku, ‘king,’ which it will surprise some scholars to hear takes the forms of ‘Kuyoni’ in the accusative singular, and ‘Kuthin’ or ‘Kuthrar’ in the genitive plural), and he has consequently lessened the interest, if not the value, of that work.[621]