Pahlavi Texts #250175

The peculiar mode of writing Pahlavi, here alluded to, long made the character of the language a standing puzzle for European scholars, and was first satisfactorily explained by Professor Haug, of Munich, in his admirable Essay on the Pahlavi Language already cited. Like the Assyrians of old, the Persians of Parthian times appear to have borrowed their writing from a foreign race.