The Cuneatic Characters of Babylon, Assyria, and Persia. 101 



be both the second, on the last character bnt one in KH. 

 SCH. H. E. E. SOH. B. ; and it was so. 



Thus was the first step in the interpretation of the cuneatic 

 characters of the Persian system put to proof; and the re- 

 sult was acknowledged to be a brilliant discovery, in COnge- 



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co 



m 



^fi 



CM 



6 



CO 



H 



W 



o 



U2 



tf 



H 



W 



CO 



*o 



^ 



>^ 



CO 



<! 



CNl 



CM 



ft 





quence, however, of different methods being employed in the 

 Persian system for writing the same words, the discovery was 

 not entirely accurate, yet it was such a step as fairly led to 

 the expectation that further progress would speedily follow. 

 Yet such was not the case. So far and no further, with trifling 

 exceptions, did the discoveries of the German scholar and his 

 immediate successors extend ; and for nearly half a century no 

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