Word: rawlinson
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 to the study of the inscriptions. He states that his work was altogether independent of Grotefend and other European scholars. He used a method similar to that of Grotefend and reached results much more advanced...
...various signs were syllables and not letters. From this discovery the work went rapidly forward. In 1857 so much had been written on the subject that the Royal Asiatic Society of London appointed a committee of scholars to test the accuracy of the translations. The committee submitted to Rawlinson, Hinch, and Fox Talbot copies of a long passage of writting from one of the old Assyrian kings. Independent translations were to be made and returned in sealed packages to the committee. These translations showed such a large amount of agreement that there has never since been reason to doubt...
Babylonian Books. Their decipherment by Grotefend and Rawlinson. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Professor Lyon will deliver, this afternoon, in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, his second lecture on Babylonian Books. The subject of today's lecture will be "The decipherment of the Babylonian Books by Grotefend and Rawlinson," and the lecture will be made doubly interesting by photographic slides and copies of these books...
...FRIDAY.Babylonian Books. Their decipherment by Grotefend and Rawlinson. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...