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