Oppert, J.

Japanese: Oppert,J.(英語表記)OppertJ
Oppert, J.

…Rawlinson further determined the phonetic values ​​of about 100 letters, clearly understood the principles of the Babylonian alphabet and its Semitic character, and published the text of Bistun in 1851. Regarding Assyrian, which is only a dialectal difference from Babylonian, J. Oppert discovered a syllabary (phonetic table) that listed the phonetic values ​​and meanings of cuneiform letters in the Nineveh documents transferred to the British Museum, and confirmed and corrected the letters that had already been deciphered. In 1885, he published a paper determining the phonetic values ​​of proper nouns, laying the foundation for philological research. In 1857, the Royal Asiatic Society of England had Hincks, Rawlinson, Oppert, and W.H. Talbot separately translate the newly discovered Assyrian inscriptions at Ashur, and officially confirmed that the results of their decipherment matched, marking the birth of Assyriology. …

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…ローリンソンはさらに100個ばかりの音価を決定し,バビロニア文字の原理とセム語的性格を明確に理解して,51年にビストゥンのテキストを刊行する。バビロニア語と方言的な差しかないアッシリア語についてもオッペールJ.Oppertは大英博物館に移管されたニネベ文書の中に楔形文字の音価と意味を並記したシラバリーsyllabary(字音表)を発見し,すでに解読されていた文字の確認と修正補充を行い,固有名詞の音価なども決定する論文を85年に発表することにより,文献学的研究の基礎を据えた。1857年,イギリスの王立アジア協会はヒンクス,ローリンソン,オッペール,タルボットW.H.F.Talbotら4人にアッシュールで新しく発見されたアッシリア語碑文を別々に翻訳させ,それらの解読結果が一致したことを公式に確認し,アッシリア学が誕生することになった。…

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