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The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

Chapter 9: APPENDIX B TABLE SHOWING THE TRUE VALUES OF OLD PERSIAN LETTERS; AND THE AUTHOR AND DATE OF THEIR DECIPHERMENT
By Arthur John Booth
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A scholarly narrative recounts the gradual discovery, copying, and study of the Achaemenian monuments carrying three parallel cuneiform texts, following travellers' reports, archaeological surveys, and publication of inscriptions. It explains the distinctive scripts, the stepwise decipherment of the simplest Persian column which provided the key to the others, and how comparative analysis unlocked Babylonian and related scripts. The account surveys major expeditions, epigraphic methods, and philological breakthroughs, and concludes with the broader linguistic and historical consequences that arose from reading the trilingual texts and the recovery of Babylonian and Sumerian material.

APPENDIX B
TABLE SHOWING THE TRUE VALUES OF OLD PERSIAN LETTERS; AND THE AUTHOR AND DATE OF THEIR DECIPHERMENT

Persian Cuneiform Signs Correct Values
Spiegel, 1881		 Name of Decipherer and Date
1 Defective
2 𐏐 Sign of Separation Münter, 1800
3 Defective
4 𐎣 k before a Burnouf and Lassen independently, 1836, k
5 𐎿 s before a, i, u Grotefend, 1802, s
6 𐎿 Defective
7 𐎲 b before a, i, u Münter, 1800, b
8 𐎾 Defective
9 𐎼 r before a & i Grotefend, 1802, r
10 𐎺 v before a & u Lassen, 1836, w? Jacquet, 1838, v
11 𐎭 d before a Grotefend, 1802, d
12 𐎡 i St. Martin, 1823, y. Lassen, 1836, i
13 tř Lassen, 1836, t? Grotefend, 1837, thr? th Rawlinson, 1836, tř
14 𐎱 p before a, i, u Grotefend, 1802, p
15 𐎻 v before i St. Martin, 1823, v
16 𐎨 c before a Jacquet, 1838, ch or c
17 Defective
18 𐏀 z before a, i, u Burnouf and Lassen independently, 1836, z
19 𐎮 d before i Holtzmann, 1846, d before i
20 Defective
21 𐎠 a Tychsen, 1798, a. Münter, 1800, e or a
22 𐎬 t before u Lassen, 1836
23 𐎶 m before a Rask, 1826, m
24 𐎫 t before a & i Grotefend, 1802, t
25 𐎤 k before u Grotefend, 1815, k
26 𐎰 th before a, i, u Jacquet, 1838, th
27 𐎹 y before a, i, u Beer and Jacquet independently, 1838, y
28 𐎩 j before a Hincks and Rawlinson independently, 1846, j before a
29 𐎷 m before i Lassen, 1836, m before i
30 Defective
31 𐎴 n before a & i Rask, 1826, n
32 𐎪 j before i Rawlinson, 1838, j
33 𐎸 m before u Rawlinson, 1838, m before u
34 𐎯 d before u Tychsen, 1798, d. Lassen, 1836, d
35 𐎥 g before a Lassen, 1836, g
36 𐎢 u Tychsen, 1798. Grotefend, 1802, u
37 Defective
38 𐏁 s (sh) before a, i, u Tychsen, 1798, s. Grotefend, 1802, sch, sh
39 𐎳 f before a Grotefend, 1803, f
40 𐎽 r before u Grotefend, 1815, sr
41 𐏃 h before a, i, u Grotefend, 1803, a
42 𐎧 kh before u Grotefend, 1802, kh
43 𐎵 n before u Rawlinson, 1846, n before u
44 𐎦 g before u Lassen, 1836, g
Part of a contraction
𐎾 l? Oppert, 1847, l?
𐏋 k h s Grotefend, 1802, king
𐏏 bumi Lassen, 1844, bumi
𐏍 dah Lassen, 1844, dah
nâma (name) } Oppert, 1874. Weissbach considers these signs of doubtful authority (‘Altpers. Keil.,’ p. 1).
putřa (son)
Pârsa (Persia)
Auramazda
Franâ?