286 Rev. Dr. Watt on the different Kinds of Cuneiform Writing 
which, indeed, it was his practice to combine with other kinds, as better known 
to his subjects ; but for which he still marked constantly his preference by the 
place he gave it in the triple cuneiform inscriptions. And the soundness of his 
judgment on this point is the more conspicuously exhibited by contrasting his 
conduct with that of his successors, who, after the species of writing in question 
had been once introduced, and its superior utility had of necessity been per- 
ceived, at least to some extent, allowed it, notwithstanding, to be discarded, in 
compliance with the interests or the prejudices of their scribes. 
11. I shall now proceed to bring together under view the specimen of the 
name Xerwes, written both in cuneiform and in hieroglyphic characters on an 
alabaster vase in the ‘ Cabinet du Roi,’ at Paris, which was first noticed by Count 
Caylus, and another of the name Artazerwes, similarly expressed in the same two 
kinds of writing, which was more recently discovered by Sir J. G. Wilkinson on a 
vase of like material in the Treasury of St. Mark, at Venice. Copies of the two 
specimens are inserted under Nos. 2 and 3 in the table connected with this paper, 
taken from the sixth plate in the thirty-first volume of Miscellaneous Tracts, pub- 
lished by the Society of Antiquaries of London, under the title of Archeologia ; 
but I have omitted the cuneiform writing of the second and third kinds (which 
I hold to be non-alphabetic), as also the portions of the lines in the first kind of 
that writing after the two names, which are partly mutilated, and likewise the 
second representation of the name Artaxerxes, in the same character, as altered by 
Major Rawlinson. Contiguous to the cuneiform characters, and to such of the hiero- 
glyphs as are used as letters, are placed the phonetic values they are confined to, or 
admit of; according to which the Persian and Egyptian designations of the first 
name should, I submit, be read respectively, KhShEARShA and KhSEALSA ; 
and those of the second, ARDaKhCheShE and ALTDakKhSaSa. The final cha- 
racter of the second cuneiform designation, the more usual value of which is 7, Major 
Rawlinson altered to the letter of ch power, making it the same as the antepenulti- 
mate one of the group, which he in consequence reads ARDaK’hChaShCha ;* 
* The reading of this name, in the plate of the 4rcheologia above referred to, is engraved 
ARDaK’hChaShaCha; but it is not fair to impute to the Major the blunders of his correspond- 
ents; and I have, therefore, ventured to substitute in my text a transcription in accordance 
with Ardak’chashcha, which is that given by himself in the second chapter of his memoir, at 
the bottom of page 50. 
