Das vorliegende Werk des Indologen Christian Lassen (1800 - 1876) ist eines der bedeutendsten Werke zur Erschliessung der Keilschrift des Orients und versammelt die fortschrittlichen Ergebnisse seiner Nachforschungen in Perseopolis. Sorgfaltig nachbearbeiteter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1836

The decipherment of the ancient cuneiform scripts was one of the major breakthroughs in nineteenth-century archaeology and linguistics. Among the scholars working on Old Persian was Christian Lassen (1800-76), professor of Sanskrit at Bonn. Lassen's book on cuneiform inscriptions from Persepolis appeared in 1836, a month before his friend Eugene Burnouf independently published very similar conclusions. Lassen's account gives vivid insights into the detective work involved, as he painstakingly compares individual words and grammatical forms with their Avestan and Sanskrit equivalents, and...