# The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

Author: Booth, Arthur John

Genre: Category: History - Ancient

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71905

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## Summary

The decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia is worthy of being included among the great achievements of the nineteenth century. Only a hundred years ago it was still possible to maintain that there was no such thing as cuneiform writing, and that the mysterious figures that went by that name were merely a grotesque form of ornamentation. We propose to recount the method pursued by the long succession of scholars who in the end succeeded in solving the perplexing problem that was presented to them. Few, if any, of those who, in the beginning of last century, occupied themselves with the subject, could have imagined the brilliant discoveries that would result from their t...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/8/index.md)
- [part ii. p. 233.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part IV. was not published till 1849. It included the sixth chapter](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/12/index.md)
- [iii. 98 ff, Plates 52-74; but four of these are devoted to copies of the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part III. was at the same time in the hands of the printer, and appeared](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-discovery-and-decipherment-of-the-trilingual-cuneiform-insc-663e657c/chapters/5/index.md)