Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Customs and Post, and for-warded to him by the courtesy of Mr. A. Miller, Russian Consulat Kerman. The contents of the eight lines are familiar fromother inscriptions of Darius, and they read : I (am) Darius,the Great King, the King of Kings, the King of Nations, Kingof this Earth, son of Vishtaspa, the Achaemenian. The samelines are repeated in an Elamitic and a Babylonian version.* It may be said in conclusion that, viewed as a whole, thestory of the deciphering of the cuneiform recor
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Customs and Post, and for-warded to him by the courtesy of Mr. A. Miller, Russian Consulat Kerman. The contents of the eight lines are familiar fromother inscriptions of Darius, and they read : I (am) Darius,the Great King, the King of Kings, the King of Nations, Kingof this Earth, son of Vishtaspa, the Achaemenian. The samelines are repeated in an Elamitic and a Babylonian version.* It may be said in conclusion that, viewed as a whole, thestory of the deciphering of the cuneiform records is one of themost instructive chapters in the history of philological research,and the achievements of Grotefend and his successors are to be iWith regard to the expression Bang, Altpers. Keilinschr. pp. 7, 38, Peace (Uydti) of. Isaiah 45. 7, and see and Gobineau, Traite, 1. 323 seq.; also JAGS. 21. 166. Bartold, Historico-geographical Ac- 2 Approximately 10 cm. by 9 cm. count of Iran, pp. 94-95 (in Russian), For the text of this inscription St. Petersburg, 1903. in transliteration, see Weissbach and. The Kerman Inscription ok King Darius3. The Baljylouiau Text OTHER CUNEIFORM RECORDS 185 reckoned among the memorable accomplishments of the nine-teenth century. Let us hope that those blessings may alwayscome true which Darius invokes in the inscription itself uponthose who preserve the inscription and make it known to thepeople, for Auramazda shall be their friend. CHAPTER XIV THE GREAT BEHTSTAN ROCK AND AN ASCENT TO READTHE CUNEIFORM RECORDS OF DARIUS i I wol yow all thys shap devyse— and site, and all the wyseHow I gan to this place aprooheThat stood upon so high a rocheHyer stant there noon in Spayne,But up I olomb with alle payne. — CHAncEE, House of Fame, 3. 23-28. Eastee Monday, April 13, 1903, will remain for me a mem-orable date in the calendar, for on that morning, after four dayson horseback from Hamadan, I caught my first glimpse of themountain of Behistan and
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