Die Münzen der griechischen, parthischen und indoskythischen Könige von Baktrien und den Ländern am Indus ("The coins of the Greek, Parthian and Indo-Scythian kings of Bactria and the countries on the Indus"), 1839
Carl Ludwig Grotefend (22 December 1807 – 27 October 1874)[1] was a German epigraphist, philologist and numismatist. He played a key role in the decipherment of the Indian Kharoshthi script on the coinage of the Indo-Greek kings, around the same time as James Prinsep, publishing Die unbekannte Schrift der Baktrischen Münzen ("The unknown script of the Bactrian coins") in 1836.[2][3] He was the son of the famous philologist Georg Friedrich Grotefend, who made the first successful attempts at deciphering Old Persian cuneiform.[2][4]
It is thought that Carl Ludwig Grotefend independently accomplished the first decipherment of the Kharoshthi script (1836, in Blätter für Münzkunde, Germany)[5] around the same time as Prinsep (1835, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, India),[6] as Grotefend was "evidently not aware of the latter's article".[7]
In 1839, he wrote Die Münzen der griechischen, parthischen und indoskythischen Könige von Baktrien und den Ländern am Indus ("The coins of the Greek, Parthian and Indo-Scythian kings of Bactria and the countries on the Indus").[8]
Decirpherment of Kharoshthi by C.L. Grotefend in Blatter fur Munzkunde in 1836.[5]
Coin plate, by Carl Ludwig Grotefend (1839)
Kharoshthi on a coin of Indo-Greek king Artemidoros Aniketos, reading "Rajatirajasa Moasa Putasa cha Artemidorasa". The obverse has the same legend in Greek.
^"Mitglieder - Karl Ludwig Grotefend" (in German). Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
^ abArticle published in Blatter fur Munzkunde 2 (no. 26), 1836, 309-14 + pi. XXIV. Salomon, Richard (1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-19-535666-3.
^Prinsep published his article in Journal of the Asiatic society of Bengal 4, 1835, 327-8 Salomon, Richard (1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-19-535666-3.
^Grotefend, Carl Ludwig (1839). Die Münzen der griechischen, parthischen und indoskythischen Könige von Baktrien und den Ländern am Indus (in German). Hahn. p. 10.
^ abGrote, Hermann (1836). Blätter für Münzkunde. Hannoversche numismatische Zeitschrift. Hrsg. von H. Grote (in German). Hahn. pp. 309–314.
^Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol IV 1835. pp. 327–348.
^Salomon, Richard (1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-19-535666-3.
^Grotefend, Carl Ludwig (1839). Die Münzen der griechischen, parthischen und indoskythischen Könige von Baktrien und den Ländern am Indus (in German). Hahn.
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Decirpherment of Kharoshthi by C.L. Grotefend in Blatter fur Munzkunde in 1836.[5]
Coin plate, by Carl Ludwig Grotefend (1839)
Kharoshthi on a coin of Indo-Greek king Artemidoros Aniketos, reading "Rajatirajasa Moasa Putasa cha Artemidorasa". The obverse has the same legend in Greek.![Decirpherment of Kharoshthi by C.L. Grotefend in Blatter fur Munzkunde in 1836.[5]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Decirpherment_of_Kharoshthi_by_C.L._Grotefend_in_1836.jpg/200px-Decirpherment_of_Kharoshthi_by_C.L._Grotefend_in_1836.jpg)
