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How do you decipher writing? Do you just guess what one glyph means and then try to figure out the context!? What is the Rawlinson Method?
by z3t4 2y ago
How do you decipher writing? Do you just guess what one glyph means and then try to figure out the context!? What is the Rawlinson Method?
- yorwba 2y ago[...] by searching for the names of ancient Persian kings in the parallel inscriptions [...] the names would have been pronounced approximately the same way in Old Persian and Akkadian. Compare also how Old Persian had been deciphered by Grotefend using a similar method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Friedrich_Grotefend#Decipherment_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Friedrich_Grotefend#Deci... (An uncharitable reading of the story in the article is that the "Rawlinson method" consists of claiming credit for discoveries made by Hincks.)