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to express z. The syllable, then, which Lassen writes za, is expressed by n' sha, a 
combination which, by analogy, should represent a softened sha, or zha. This 
being settled, it remains to decide whether Lassen’s 2’ or S was our soft s; and 
though the transcription of the name Susa, in L, which would then be Uja, is a 
difficulty, I think there is an immense preponderance of argument in favour of $ 
being soft s, or z. It is twice transcribed by s in IL., which 2‘ never is; and the 
reading the transcription of the name of Assyria in L. “ Ajura,” appears to me 
attended with far greater difficulties than to read Susa “Ua.” I, therefore, give 
the letters 1, 18, and 12, the values j, z, and zh. With respect to 4, it cannot 
be a secondary value of 18, for this is used repeatedly before 7; on the contrary, 
12 is never so used; and the character 12 is much more frequent than 1. I, 
therefore, class 4 with 12, as its secondary value before it, although there is no 
positive proof that itis not aj. 
I conclude with transcribing a passage as Lassen writes it, and as, according 
to my corrected method, it ought to be written. I take the conclusion of the 
inscription E. 
@atija khsjarsi, khsajaSija wazarka; wasni Auramazdaha ima hak’his 
Ziti khshydrshd khshdyazia wazharka; washnd Atiramazhdéha ima hadish 
adam 4qunwam; maim Auramazdi pad’huwa hada bagibis; utamija khsa- 
ddam dkunawam; mdm Atiramazhdé pdtu, hada bagébish ; uta-mé khsha- 
thram uta tjamija kartam. 
tram utd tya-mé kartam. 
I place also in juxtaposition Lassen’s translation and my own: 
Generosus (sum) Xerxes, rex magnus. Ex voluntate Auramazdis hane 
» Dicit Xerves, rex magnus. Ex voluntate Auramazdis hanc 
aulam-columnarem ego erexi. Me, O Auramazdes, tuere, (cwm) diis hujus loci, 
aulam ego fect. Me, O Auramazdes, tuere, und cum diis, 
tum hoc regnum, tum hoc palatium. 
meumgue regnum, atgue meum opus. 
In the first part of a critique on Lassen’s work, by Holtzmann, the mis- 
translations Awjus loci and palatiwm are noticed, but the initial sentence is not 
