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" Dr. GROTEFEND, who professes to be rather the decipherer than the translator of the cuneiform inscriptions, and who engages merely to open the way to those whose attention has been much devoted to the study of the ancient languages of Persia, has however... "
M. Botta's Letters on the Discoveries at Nineveh - Page vi
by Paul Emile Botta - 1850 - 74 pages
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Volume 3

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pages
...mystery. Should he ultimately succeed entirely in his difficult and laborious task, as he has already in translating some of the inscriptions on the ruins of Persepolis, and one from those of Pasargadae, we may expect extraordinary intelligence from the buried world of the most ancient times....
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Narrative of a Journey to the Site of Babylon in 1811: Now First Published ...

Claudius James Rich - 1839 - 490 pages
...to communicate to the world his valuable labours in a separate and more perfect form. Dr. Grotefend, who professes to be rather the decipherer than the...on the ruins of Persepolis, and one from those of Pasargadee. He observes that there are three varieties of those inscriptions distinguished from each...
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M. Botta's letters on the discoveries at Nineveh [with notes by J ..., Part 57

Paul Émile Botta - 1850 - 250 pages
...and the process by which he obtained it, he very ingenuously submits to the public. "Dr. GROTEFEND, who professes to be rather the decipherer than the...on the ruins of Persepolis, and one from those of Pasargadoe. He observes that there are three varieties of those inscriptions, distinguished from each...
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