Word: grotfeend
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Dates: during 1889-1889
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...which the reading of the Babylonian was sure to follow. Inscriptions from Persepolis furnished the material. After the unsuccessful attempts of various scholars, Georg Friederich Grotefend, of Hanover, in 1802, found the key, by applying a formula of the old Pehlevi inscriptions to the shorter cuneiform inscriptions from Persepolis. Grotfeend made out several of the letters accurately and several others proximately, but his material was too limited for him to do much more than read a few proper names in the inscriptions. Colonel (now Sir) Henry Rawlinson, a young English officer, while stationed in Persia in 1835, was attracted...
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