The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions . CHALDEAN HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS INTERKA-COTTA. [Sec p. 52. BLACK OBELISK OK BB \LM INESEB EC. [Seep. 21. [To/acep 21. DECIPHERMENT OF CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS 21 One of the inscriptions he has translated in full—the annals of Shalmaneser II., on an obelisk of blackmarble discovered at Nimrud and now in the BritishMuseum. The text is a long one, and for the firsttime the European reader had placed before him acontemporaneous account of the campaigns of anAssyrian monarch in the ninth century before our translation is substantially correct; it is
The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions . CHALDEAN HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS INTERKA-COTTA. [Sec p. 52. BLACK OBELISK OK BB \LM INESEB EC. [Seep. 21. [To/acep 21. DECIPHERMENT OF CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS 21 One of the inscriptions he has translated in full—the annals of Shalmaneser II., on an obelisk of blackmarble discovered at Nimrud and now in the BritishMuseum. The text is a long one, and for the firsttime the European reader had placed before him acontemporaneous account of the campaigns of anAssyrian monarch in the ninth century before our translation is substantially correct; it is only in theproper names that Rawlinson has gone much values of many of the characters were still uncer-tain or unknown, and he was under the domination ofthe belief that they represented alphabetic letters. He was, moreover, mistaken as to the age of themonument itself, which he assigned to too early anepoch. It was Dr. Hincks who again settled thequestion, by reading upon it the names of Hazaelof Damascus and Jehu of Th
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