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Martha Roth

Chauncey S. Boucher Distinguished Service Professor of Assyriology
  • Director and Editor-in-Charge, Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project
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Chicago Assyrian Dictionary

Location:
Middle East, Iraq
Timespan:
1921 – Present

Launched in 1921, the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is a landmark ISAC research project documenting Akkadian, the earliest known Semitic language. Built by generations of scholars, the CAD records the…