Curiously enough, it was a trilingual inscription that gave the clew, as in the case of the Rosetta Stone, though with very striking difference withal.
The trilingualinscription now in question, instead of being a small, portable monument, covers the surface of a massive bluff at Behistun in western Persia.
The Median and Persian classes are peculiar to the trilingual tablets of Persia, and are better known than the first class or Babylonian.
For our knowledge of the second variety of characters on the Persian trilingual tablets, we are indebted to the labors and sagacity of Professor Westergaard.
The only inscription at Wan that I could not copy was the trilingual tablet of Xerxes.
Accident had called Young's attention to the Rosetta Stone, and his rapacity for knowledge led him to speculate as to the possible aid this trilingual inscription might offer in the solution of Egyptian problems.
Booth, The Discovery and Decipherment of the Trilingual Cuneiform Inscriptions (London, 1902), which is very exhaustive and accurate.
He had copied two trilingual inscriptions, and recognized at once that he had three languages before him.
The next problem in the study of cuneiform was the decipherment of the second language in each of the trilingual groups.
Curiously enough, it was a trilingual inscription that gave the clew, as in the case of the Rosetta stone; though with a very striking difference withal.
Young had his attention called to the Rosetta stone by accident, and his usual rapacity for knowledge at once led him to speculate as to the possible aid this trilingual inscription might give in the solution of Egyptian problems.
The trilingual inscription now in question, instead of being a small portable monument, covers the surface of a massive bluff at Behistun, in western Persia.
In the narrative given of the decipherment of cuneiform writing reference was made to the three distinct combinations of the arrow-headed or wedge-shaped characters in the trilingual inscriptions at first deciphered.
As rightly conjectured, the other texts of the trilingual inscriptions are copies of the same decrees, addressed to other peoples of the realm, speaking different languages and possessing different systems of writing.
The greater simplicity of the Persian versions in the trilingual inscriptions, suggested less difficulties to overcome and led him to pursue the same lines by which Grotefend had previously obtained success.
In the year 1802, Grotefend, then a young student in the University of Bonn, announced to his colleagues his success in the decipherment of a trilingual inscription copied by Niebuhr from the ruins of a royal palace at Persepolis.
A trilingual list of gods enables us also to recognise, in some cases, the dialectic forms of their names.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trilingual" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
