The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptionsBooth, Arthur John
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The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions
Booth, Arthur John
Achaemenian inscriptions; Cuneiform inscriptions
+----------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| Persian | Correct Values | Name of Decipherer and Date |
| Cuneiform | Spiegel, 1881 | |
| Signs | | |
+----+-----------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| 1 | [Persian] | Defective | |
| 2 | 𐏐 | Sign of Separation | Münter, 1800 |
| 3 | [Persian] | Defective | |
| 4 | 𐎣 | k before a | Burnouf and Lassen |
| | | | independently, 1836, k |
| 5 | 𐎿 | s before a, i, u | Grotefend, 1802, s |
| 6 | 𐎿 | Defective | |
| 7 | 𐎲 | b before a, i, u | Münter, 1800, b |
| 8 | 𐎾 | Defective | |
| 9 | 𐎼 | r before a & i | Grotefend, 1802, r |
| 10 | 𐎺 | v before a & u | Lassen, 1836, w? Jacquet, |
| | | | 1838, v |
| 11 | 𐎭 | d before a | Grotefend, 1802, d |
| 12 | 𐎡 | i | St. Martin, 1823, y. |
| | | | Lassen, 1836, i |
| 13 | [Persian] | tř | Lassen, 1836, t? Grotefend, |
| | | | 1837, thr? th |
| | | | Rawlinson, 1836, tř |
| 14 | 𐎱 | p before a, i, u | Grotefend, 1802, p |
| 15 | 𐎻 | v before i | St. Martin, 1823, v |
| 16 | 𐎨 | c before a | Jacquet, 1838, ch or c |
| 17 | [Persian] | Defective | |
| 18 | 𐏀 | z before a, i, u | Burnouf and Lassen |
| | | | independently, 1836, z |
| 19 | 𐎮 | d before i | Holtzmann, 1846, d before i |
| 20 | [Persian] | Defective | |
| 21 | 𐎠 | a | Tychsen, 1798, a. Münter, |
| | | | 1800, e or a |
| 22 | 𐎬 | t before u | Lassen, 1836 |
| 23 | 𐎶 | m before a | Rask, 1826, m |
| 24 | 𐎫 | t before a & i | Grotefend, 1802, t |
| 25 | 𐎤 | k before u | Grotefend, 1815, k |
| 26 | 𐎰 | th before a, i, u | Jacquet, 1838, th |
| 27 | 𐎹 | y before a, i, u | Beer and Jacquet |
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