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In the mid-nineteenth century, scholars attempting to decipher Old Persian cuneiform faced an apparently intractable hurdle: the script lacked explicit word dividers in its earliest recorded inscriptions. Initial breakthroughs occurred when Georg Friedrich Grotefend identified recurring trilingual royal inscriptions at Persepolis, correctly hypothesizing that royal titles followed standardized syntactic patterns. However, Grotefend's reliance on conjectural readings of royal names led to significant errors in phonetic values, preventing the system from being applied universally. The critical turning point came when Henry Rawlinson copied the extensive Behistun Inscription, which provided a far larger corpus containing long lists of proper names with known Greek equivalents. By systematically cross-referencing these Greek historical names against the Cuneiform signs, Rawlinson established the true syllabic and alphabetic character of the script, thereby validating the decipherment methodology. Consequently, later philologists were able to extend these decipherment principles to far more complex scripts such as Elamite and Babylonian.

Which sentence in the passage specifies the precise analytical method that provided definitive validation for the Old Persian decipherment methodology?

  1. A
    Initial breakthroughs occurred when Georg Friedrich Grotefend identified recurring trilingual royal inscriptions at Persepolis, correctly hypothesizing that royal titles followed standardized syntactic patterns.
  2. B
    However, Grotefend's reliance on conjectural readings of royal names led to significant errors in phonetic values, preventing the system from being applied universally.
  3. C
    The critical turning point came when Henry Rawlinson copied the extensive Behistun Inscription, which provided a far larger corpus containing long lists of proper names with known Greek equivalents.
  4. By systematically cross-referencing these Greek historical names against the Cuneiform signs, Rawlinson established the true syllabic and alphabetic character of the script, thereby validating the decipherment methodology.Cevap
  5. E
    Consequently, later philologists were able to extend these decipherment principles to far more complex scripts such as Elamite and Babylonian.

Cevap

The sentence beginning with 'By systematically cross-referencing these Greek historical names...' is the correct choice because it explicitly describes the analytical method (cross-referencing Greek historical names against cuneiform signs) and connects it directly to validating the decipherment methodology.
The correct sentence explicitly outlines the analytical procedure ('systematically cross-referencing these Greek historical names against the Cuneiform signs') and directly states that this action established the character of the script, 'thereby validating the decipherment methodology.'

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1
Analyze the prompt requirements
The target sentence must specify two things: (1) the precise analytical method used by scholars and (2) its role in providing definitive validation for the Old Persian decipherment methodology.
Select-in-passage questions require matching both the specific action and the exact rhetorical function described in the stem.
2
Evaluate the passage sentences against the target criteria
The sentence beginning 'By systematically cross-referencing...' contains both the specific mechanism ('cross-referencing these Greek historical names against the Cuneiform signs') and the explicit outcome ('thereby validating the decipherment methodology').
This sentence directly links the empirical analytical procedure to the validation of the decipherment.
3
Eliminate non-qualifying sentences
Sentences discussing Grotefend focus on preliminary hypotheses and errors; the sentence introducing the Behistun inscription discusses data collection; and the final sentence describes downstream applications to other languages.
Adjacent sentences perform surrounding rhetorical roles (context, data acquisition, future applications) but do not describe the core validating method.

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