The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions . ?. THE TOMB OF DARIDS. [To face p. 16. DECIPHERMENT OF CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS 17 till The work, however, was well worthy ofthe time and care that had been bestowed upon task of deciphering the Persian cuneiform textswas virtually accomplished, and the guesses of Grote-fend had developed into the discovery of a newalphabet and a new language. The capstone wasput to the work by the discovery of Hincks, an Irishclergyman, that the alphabet was not a true one inthe modern sense of the word, a vowel-sound beingattached in pronunciation to
The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions . ?. THE TOMB OF DARIDS. [To face p. 16. DECIPHERMENT OF CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS 17 till The work, however, was well worthy ofthe time and care that had been bestowed upon task of deciphering the Persian cuneiform textswas virtually accomplished, and the guesses of Grote-fend had developed into the discovery of a newalphabet and a new language. The capstone wasput to the work by the discovery of Hincks, an Irishclergyman, that the alphabet was not a true one inthe modern sense of the word, a vowel-sound beingattached in pronunciation to each of the consonantsrepresented in it. The mystery of the Persian cuneiform texts wasthus solved after nearly fifty years of endeavour. Aharder task still remained. The Persian texts wereaccompanied by two other cuneiform transcripts,which, as Grotefend had perceived, must have repre-sented the other two principal languages that werespoken in the Persian Empire. That the third tran-script was Babylonian seemed evident from the re-semblance of
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