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Martha T. Roth
Editorial Board:
Robert D. Biggs, John A. Brinkman, Miguel Civil, Walter Farber, Erica Reiner, Martha T. Roth, Matthew W. Stolper
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Volume 1, A, part 1 xxxvi + 392 1964 978-0-91-898606-1 $60.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 1, A, part 2 xx + 531 1968 978-0-91-898607-8 $80.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 2, B xviii + 366 1965 978-0-91-898608-5 $60.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 3, D xiv + 203 1959 978-0-91-898609-2 $50.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 4, E xiv + 435 1958 978-0-91-898610-8 $70.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 5, G xii + 158 1956 978-0-91-898611-5 $45.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 6, H [Het] xiii + 266 1956 978-0-91-898612-2 $50.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 7, I/J xv + 331 1960 978-0-91-898613-9 $60.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 8, K xix + 617 1971 978-0-91-898614-6 $80.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 9, L xx + 259 1973 978-0-91-898615-3 $55.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 10, M, part 1 xxiv + 441 1977 978-0-91-898616-0 $130.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 10, M, part 2 xx + 324 1977 978-0-91-898616-0 † Download Terms of Use
Volume 11, N, part 1 xxiii + 382 1980 978-0-91-898617-7 $130.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 11, N, part 2 xxi + 357 1980 978-0-91-898617-7 † Download Terms of Use
Volume 12, P xxx + 559 2005 978-1-88-592335-6 $130.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 13, Q xxiv + 332 1982 978-0-91-898624-5 $70.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 14, R xxx + 441 1999 978-1-88-592314-1 $95.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 15, S xxiv + 428 1984 978-0-91-898632-0 $80.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 16, S [Tsade] xv + 262 1962 978-0-91-898618-4 $65.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 17, S [Shin], part 1 xxviii + 492 1989 978-0-91-898655-9 $75.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 17, S [Shin], part 2 xxviii + 453 1992 978-0-91-898678-8 $70.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 17, S [Shin], part 3 xxxiv + 420 1992 978-0-91-898679-5 $95.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 18, T xxx + 500 2006 978-1-88-592342-4 $145.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 19, T [Tet] xxxii + 167 2006 978-1-88-592343-1 $105.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 20, U/W xxxi + 411 2010 978-1-88-592378-3 $150.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 21, Z xv + 170 1961 978-0-91-898619-1 $45.00 Purchase Download Terms of Use
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The CAD project was initiated in the early 1920s, not long after James Henry Breasted founded the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures 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.

Completed in 2010, 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, linguistics, and the timeless beauty of their poetry.