SEYFFARTH—BURNT BRICK FROM NINEVEH. 65 
chian, alphabet for their basis.* For, all those groups of wedges 
originate from combinations of different wedges; and by bring- 
ing them, particularly the 36 Persian groups, into a row or file, 
according to the law of combinat ien, it appears that these letters 
then follow, the one after the other, like the letters of our alpha- 
bet: a,b,c,and seen. Thus, the 36 cuneiform groups of the 
kage? correspond with the 36 letters of the modern Persians, 
Tho groups of the Median system express the same — t= 
ters, cance with different vowels,as Westergoord confirmed, 
four years after the publication of my ‘ Alphabeta Cocaiin. 4 
The Assyrian groups, of which 400 are already known, signify, 
partly, those 36 single letters; partly, the same combined with 
vowels, and, partly, the same joined to different consonants; as it 
was first shown in my “ Alphabeta ean pee and co onfirmed, 
y 
is @ ony 00r one. Nobcthoanate, it has been 
considered as the first key to this immense new literature. Raw- 
linson, in the midst of Assyrian antiquities, has adopted, enlarged, 
and, without doubt, corrected it; his book, however, with his “Ale 
has made its way from old Nineveh to St. Louis, through the in- 
strumentality of Mr. Marsh, an American Missionary, at Mosul, 
The cuneiform groups of the brick read as follows: 
1: Hawro—Muzdasa 
Il: pabou paopala 
Ill: hosdho(?) — 
IV: pabou paop 
V: horuz ae dah as 
VI: Koshaulsa hbuna mete 
VIL: Dhathabosh. 
That is: « Xerces, th son of Darius (sat Piterpes 51S B. 
C.), the Lord of the eirth; the master of the earth, has given bm 
oa in question) to Hormuzd (the Persian name of God), 
— 8 haps _ — to ihe aoe @) aes — 
