Word: script
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although the Babylonian inscriptions from Persepolis were translations of the deciphered old Persian, yet the difficulty of the Babylonian script stood in the way of reading the Babyilouian characters. A given sign did not always represent the same sound nor the same idea. One could read the shorter Babylonian inscriptions without knowing how to pronounce a single sign. By degrees it was seen that the 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...
...reading of these books may no longer be called decipherments, because the great facts of the script and the language are now well known. The working out of the nicer details of the grammar, the enlargement of our knowledge of the vocabulary, the discovery and publication of new books, the interpretation of the multitude of facts contained in the Babylonian books regarding early history, religion and art-these are the delightful tasks before the students of today...
...members of German 3 are requested by Dr. Wheeler to spend a part of the remainder of the year in learning German script...
...difficulties met by the American, the following may be mentioned. The language is, of course, the main one, but six months of honest hard work will overcome this in nearly every case, and in some special branches enough can be gained in four to answer all practical purposes. The script is peculiar and must be learned, for nearly all notices on the bulletins are written in it. The choice of lectures is often a problem, but as it is permitted to hear the various courses for about two weeks without settling down upon any particular one, this is reduced...