Rev. Epwarp Hinexs on the third Persepolitan Writing, &c. 253 
The following is a list of the Babylonian characters which correspond to 
these. A reference to each Persepolitan character in the alphabet follows the 
number of the Babylonian one which most closely corresponds to it in form. 
These characters are numbered as in the list published by Mr. Fisher in 1807, 
up to 287; I have added nine other characters, chiefly compound ones. 
LABIALS. 
be, we ; the first five also, when initial, e or d,s. 4 (No.1); 135 (No. 3), 
136, [a house, bit ;] 273, 132, 175, 176, 201 (No. 2) [son]; 21 (No. 4), 289 
(No. 5 = 32 + 121, 2, or 3) [always and, u ;] 46 (No. 6) [when initial, gene- 
rally and, w ;] 71 (No. 7), 116, 117, 118, 119 (No. 8), 120, 121, 122, 123, 
128, 130, 178, 179, 180, 222 (No. 9), 51. All the preceding, when not joined 
with a second character of like power, are in general we, and combine with a pre- 
ceding vowel, forming w with e, and aw or d witha. 26 (No. 10), 25, 208, 209 
(No. 11), 37, 59 (No. 12), 60, 275 (No. 13), 225 (No. 14), 233, 234, 79 
(No. 15), 253 (No. 17), 254, 44 (No. 18), 294 (= 324-51), 76, 115, 159; 
2 [two, both]; 276, 277, 278, 279. 
ba, wa; 111, 112 (No. 19); 238 [generally, wa}; 83, 88, 183 (No. 20) 
[a province; also a non-phonetic initial of names of countries] ; 171, 172 (No. 
21). 
an; 1 (No. 22); ar, 291 (No. 23 = 32 + 73); bar or war, 104, 105* 
(No. 24); 177, 178 (No. 26); bare, 263 ; bis, 166, 169. 
GUTTURALS. 
ge, ye; 12 (No. 27), 41, 42, 43 (No. 28), 23, 24 (No. 29), 31 (No. 30), 
151 (No. 31, and with same initial value) 113 (No. 32), 141, 142, 143 (Nos. 
33, 95), 288 (No. 94, = 444), 295 (No. 34, = 26 + 273), 283, 284, 40, 
All the preceding, or nearly all, when not joined with a second character of like 
power, are, in general, ye, forming, with a preceding e, 7, and with a preceding 
a, ay or é. 
* I give this value to these characters, because the transcriptions show that it was that of the 
corresponding cursive character in Persia; yet I think it probable that the final » was dropped at 
Babylon. The common word, 287, 231, 105, seems to correspond to the Hebrew D492 or NODDY, 
in the emphatic form, meaning “a (divine) image.” This could scarcely have been sounded with 
a final r, On the gems, this word precedes the name of Nebuchadnezzar in the legend which 
encircles his head ; and it is there in the plural number. 
