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  title info:
    title: Assyrian dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
  title info:
    title: Chicago Assyrian dictionary
  name:
    name part: University of Chicago
    name part: Oriental Institute.
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Dictionaries.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    place:
      place term: Chicago
    publisher: Oriental Institute
    date issued: 1956-2010
    date issued: 1956
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: akk
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 21 v. : ill.
  abstract: The CAD project was initiated in the early 1920s, not long after James Henry Breasted founded the Oriental Institute in 1919, and barely one hundred years after the decipherment of the cuneiform script. This initial decipherment, and the soon-to-follow achievements in understanding the languages in which the hundreds of thousands of clay tablets were inscribed, opened an unsuspected treasure-house for the study and appreciation of one of the world's oldest civilizations. The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, usually with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and thus in many ways assumes the function of an encyclopedia. Its source material ranges in time from the third millennium b.c. to the first century a.d., and in geographic area from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Zagros Mountains in the east. With sixteen of the projected twenty-one volumes published and the remaining volumes in various stages of preparation, with close to two million file cards - a database which is continually updated and which is accessible to scholars and students who wish to consult it - the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary has become an invaluable source for the study of the civilizations of the ancient Near East, their political and cultural history, their achievements in the sciences of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and linguistics, and not least the timeless beauty of their poetry. - Publisher.
  table of contents: v. 1 (pt. 1-2):A -- v.2:B -- v.3:D -- v.4:E -- v.5:G (1956) -- v.6:Ḫ (1956) -- v.7:I and J -- v.8:K -- v.9:L -- v.l0 (pt. 1-2):M -- v. 11(pt. 1-2):N -- v.12:P -- v.13:Q -- v.14:R --v.15:S -- v.16:Ṣ -- v.17:(pt.1-3):Š -- v.18:T -- v.19:Ṭ -- v.20:U,W -- v.21:Z.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: aw-----
  subject:
    topic: Akkadian language
    genre: Dictionaries
    topic: English
  subject:
    topic: Akkadian language
  classification: PJ3525 .C5
  classification: 492.103
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Supplement to the Akkadian dictionaries
    name:
      name part: Streck, Michael P.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Assyrian dictionary
    origin info:
      publisher: Chicago, 1956-<2006>
    identifier: (OCoLC)657299596
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  record info:
    record content source: EUN
    record creation date: 841120
    record change date: 20180829130856.0
    record identifier: in00000737663
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng