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for the word corresponding to the compound epithet, wysada- 

 hyosh, in Du, were only in part legible ; and the manner of 

 writing the name Ormusd in the inscription H, and that of 

 Artaxerxes on the vase at Venice, could only be explained by 

 supposing the sculptors to have committed errors. All these 

 for tu or du ; the name in NRu, answering to Harautish, and 

 difficulties, and others connected with the first inscription of the 

 East India Company, have been removed by an important rec- 

 tification, or series of rectifications, which I have made during 

 the past fortnight ; and the language has, moreover, been 

 brought to exhibit a much greater similarity to the other Se- 

 mitic ones than I had at first supposed. I have, therefore, to 

 request leave to substitute the alphabet which I now send for 

 that in my last paper. As the correspondence between the 

 cursive and lapidary characters in the plate to that paper is 

 correctly given, though the values of many of the characters 

 are erroneous, and as the plate is, I believe, partly engraved, 

 I propose to let it stand, with so much of the paper as is neces- 

 sary for understanding it ; but the transcriptions of Babylo- 

 nian words into Roman characters, and the catalogue of 

 Babylonian words, will be superseded by those which follow, 

 which are much more correct. In the plate which 1 now 

 send I give no lapidary characters, but instead thereof I give 

 many additional Persepolitan ones ; and at the foot of it I 

 give a series of numbers from the rock inscription at Van, ex- 

 hibiting the mode of expressing numbers in Cuneatic charac- 

 ters on to 100,000. These are so arranged as to require no 

 comment ; but it may be proper to state that the large num- 

 bers are those of men belonging to different nations which are 

 named ; and I presume they refer to the deportation of these 

 nations, according to the Assyrian practice. The historic 

 character of these inscriptions, of which I received a copy 

 very recently, is obvious." 



The President made a few remarks upon the present state 

 of the researches connected with Persepolitan writing, and 



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