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Historical Sources on Decipherment of Several Writing Systems

Amiaud, A.; Mechineau, L., Tableau compare des ecritures babylonienne et assyrienne archaiques et modernes, avec classement des signes d'apres leur forme archaique, 1887
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Grotefend, G. F., Ueber die Erklärung der Keilschriften, und besonders der Inschriften von Persepolis; aus: Ideen über die Politik, den Verkehr und den Handel der vornehmsten Völker der alten Welt, 1. Teil [Heeren, Arnold Hermann Ludwig], 1824
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Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrat, Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century, 1903
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Hugo, Herman, De prima scribendi origine et universa rei literariae antiquitate, 1617
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Köcher, Franz, Beschwörungen gegen die Dämonin Lamastu.; Inaugural - Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades genehmigt von der philosophischen Fakultät der Universität zu Berlin von Franz Köcher aus Auma, 1949
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Layard, Austen Henry, The monuments of Nineveh : from drawings made on the spot ; together with: a second series of the monuments of Nineveh ; including bas-reliefs from the Palace of Sannacherib and bronzes from the ruins of Nimroud ; from drawings made on the spot during a second expedition to Assyria; vol. 1, 1849
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Layard, Austen Henry, The monuments of Nineveh : from drawings made on the spot ; together with: a second series of the monuments of Nineveh ; including bas-reliefs from the Palace of Sannacherib and bronzes from the ruins of Nimroud ; from drawings made on the spot during a second expedition to Assyria; vol. 2, 1853
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Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke [ed.], The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, vol. 1-3, 1861/1866
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Vol. I: A Selection from the historical Inscriptions of Chaldeaa, Assyria, et Babylonia
Vol. 2: A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria
Vol. 3: A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria
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Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke [ed.], The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, vol. 4-5, 1875
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Vol. 4: A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria
Vol. 5: A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia
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Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, decyphered and translated; with a memoir on Persian Cuneiform Inscriptions in general and on that of Behistun in particular, 1846/47
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Schrader, Eberhard, Die assyrisch-babylonischen Keilinschriften : kritische Untersuchung der Grundlagen ihrer Entzifferung ; nebst dem babylonischen Texte der trilinguen Inschriften in Transcription samt Übersetzung und Glossar, 1872
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