Chapter IV: Beer and Jacquet to Rawlinson: A.D. 1838-46 237

Jacquet’s contributions to the ‘Journal Asiatique’: A.D. 1838 239

Rawlinson translates two paragraphs of the Behistun Inscription
for the Royal Asiatic Society: A.D. 1838 244

He deciphers two new characters: A.D. 1839 248

Grotefend’s later contributions: Identifies Artaxerxes: A.D. 1837 251

Lassen and Westergaard’s edition of the Persian and Susian
Inscriptions: A.D. 1845 253

Holtzmann’s Criticism 262

Edward Hincks begins his contributions: June 1846 265

Rawlinson’s Supplementary Note and Memoir: A.D. 1846 271

Estimate of his claims as a decipherer 275

His revised Translation of the Inscriptions 291

Hitzig, Benfey, and Oppert: A.D. 1847 294

CHAPTER V

Decipherment of the Second or Susian Column: Westergaard to
Oppert: A.D. 1844-52 298

The early efforts of Grotefend 299

Westergaard’s Essay and Translations: A.D. 1844-5 300

Hincks’s Contributions: A.D. 1846-7 307

De Saulcy, Löwenstern, and Holtzmann: A.D. 1850 309

Norris: Contributions to ‘J. R. A. S.’: 1855 314

Oppert’s first success 320

Old Susian and Malamir Inscriptions 322

Various names proposed for the Second Column 324

Oppert on ‘Le Peuple des Mèdes’: A.D. 1879 326