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The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

Note 735 — Chapter VI · DECIPHERMENT OF THE THIRD OR BABYLONIAN COLUMN—HINCKS AND RAWLINSON—A.D. 1846-1851

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J. R. A. S. x. 22 ff. Rawlinson’s classification of the writing is as follows (1847):

Cuneiform Signs 1. Babylonian Babylonian proper Bricks and cylinders (Lapidary)

East India House Inscription

Cursive

Third Persepolitan Column Practically the same as the Cursive Babylonian

2. Assyrian Assyrian proper Lapidary

Cursive

Van

3. Elymaean (found by Layard at Malamir)

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