Decipherment of the Second or Susian Column: Westergaard to
Oppert: A.D. 1844-52 298
The early efforts of Grotefend 299
Westergaard’s Essay and Translations: A.D. 1844-5 300
Hincks’s Contributions: A.D. 1846-7 307
De Saulcy, Löwenstern, and Holtzmann: A.D. 1850 309
Norris: Contributions to ‘J. R. A. S.’: 1855 314
Oppert’s first success 320
Old Susian and Malamir Inscriptions 322
Various names proposed for the Second Column 324
Oppert on ‘Le Peuple des Mèdes’: A.D. 1879 326