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Bīsitūn, Iran: monumental relief and inscription
door jamb with Hieroglyphic Luwian
Ashokan pillar
diorite statue with Sumerian inscription
Code of Hammurabi
Narmer Palette
Palermo Stone
Taking prisoners
Persian cuneiform
Shang dynasty: oracle bone inscriptions
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F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
Yury Valentinovich Knorozov
Russian linguist
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
German scholar