A history of Babylonia and Assyria . h two beautiful plates. Paris,1802. Professor Lichtenstein, of Helmstadt, supposed the writingwas a form of Aramaic and attempted to decipher it reading fromright to left. By amazing nights of imagination he turned it into Latinverse. The real sense of the mounment was secured in 1856 by JulesOppert (Bulletin Archeologique dAthenaeum francais), who improvedhis translation after the text had been republished by Rawlinson(Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, I, 70). (See Oppert andMerant, Documents Juridiques de VAssyrie et de la Chaldee, pp. 85, ,
A history of Babylonia and Assyria . h two beautiful plates. Paris,1802. Professor Lichtenstein, of Helmstadt, supposed the writingwas a form of Aramaic and attempted to decipher it reading fromright to left. By amazing nights of imagination he turned it into Latinverse. The real sense of the mounment was secured in 1856 by JulesOppert (Bulletin Archeologique dAthenaeum francais), who improvedhis translation after the text had been republished by Rawlinson(Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, I, 70). (See Oppert andMerant, Documents Juridiques de VAssyrie et de la Chaldee, pp. 85, , 1877), and again made a revision in some essential pointsbefore publishing an English translation in the Records of the Past,ix. London, 1878. The most recent translation is by Alfred Boissier,Recherches sur quelques contrats babyloniens, pp. 21-36. Paris, document is now known to have been written during the Fourthdynasty of Babylon, the Dynasty of Isin, and quite possibly in thereign of Nebuchadrezzar I, about 1150 B. i rr 6 ;H ricpg frmT Specimen illustration, slightly reduced, from Jo-seph Hager, A Dissertation on the Newly DiscoveredBabylonian Inscriptions. London, 1801. EXPLORATIONS, 1734-1820 137 to secure some of them for an English first move in this direction was made bythe East India Company of London, which for-warded, on October 18, 1797, a letter to thegovernor of Bombay instructing him to giveorders to the companys resident at Bussorah tohave search made for some of these inscribedbricks. He was then to have them carefullypacked and sent as soon as possible to in 1801 the first case arrived at the EastIndia House in London. These inscriptions werethe first that had reached London. It was true,indeed, that no man could read them. Theystood, however, as silent monuments of the past,and their very position in London called uponmen to attempt their decipherment. Their re-semblance to the inscriptions of Persepolis hadalso been po
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