Cameron's Old Persian Readings at Bisitun Restorations and Notes
โ Scribed by Roland G. Kent
- Book ID
- 125629116
- Publisher
- American Schools of Oriental Research
- Year
- 1951
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 470 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1557-5594
- DOI
- 10.2307/1359450
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โฆ Synopsis
Scholars a-ild scholarship xvill alssrays be in debt to George G. Cameron for his definitive reading of the trilingual inscriptions at Bisitun. I personally shall al+srays be most grateful to him for permitting the use of many of his nezv OP readings in my Old Persian Grammar, Texts, Lexicon, es en before he had himself put them in print as also for this opportunity to present a supplement to his orvn complete record of his nez-OP readings. His achievement lies in reading many characters inzisible to R1. and ET, and in inrrariably recorc3ing the length of the gaps +shere nothing is legible, as z<ell as in specifying that at c ertain places there z-ere gaps lacking ins(ribecl chala(ters.--I speKlli fronl the inscriptional stanclpoint only; he had other (liscoxeries in ziezz-hicll 1le mentions in his arti(le (In(l zIlich he successfllllmade. I seek here to fill in tShe illegil)le gaps zxhich lle left unfillecl in hiFs record, Llnd to add a running commentary, zxrithout l epeating zx hat I zx as [11)le to place in mv t)ool<. The texts zvill he gixell in the customary normalized form, except zllen the sign-by-sign transcription is reuired for the (liFscussion.l
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