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The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

Note 693 — Chapter V · DECIPHERMENT OF THE SECOND OR SUSIAN COLUMN—WESTERGAARD TO OPPERT—A.D. 1844-52

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Norris in J. R. A. S. xv. 145; Oppert, Records of the Past, vii. 109. Cf. Les Mèdes, p. 155; Weisbach, p. 77. See also the surprising expansion into ‘the future life,’ Col. IV. par. 7 (Les Mèdes, p. 149), which, however, he softens in the English version to ‘May I die as a Mazdean’ (Records, loc. cit. p. 106). Cf. Weisbach, p. 73. par. 46, line 99.

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