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The
Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD)
of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
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Martha Roth, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology and Dean of Humanities, discusses the final volume of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a comprehensive lexicon of ancient Akkadian dialects 86 years in the making. Roth has served as Editor-in-Charge of the project for the past 11 years. RECORDED: October 20, 2007.
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Introduction
The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, initiated in 1921 by James Henry Breasted, is compiling a comprehensive dictionary of the various dialects of Akkadian, the earliest known Semitic language that was recorded on cuneiform texts that date from c. 2400 B.C. to A.D. 100 which were recovered from archaeological excavations of ancient Near Eastern sites. The Assyrian Dictionary is in every sense a joint undertaking of resident and non-resident scholars from around the world who have contributed their time and labor over a period of seventy years to the collection of the source materials and to the publication of the Dictionary.
The CAD project began 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.
Source: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
The
Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) of the
Oriental
Institute of the University of Chicago
Editor-in-Charge:
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 | Pagination | Date | ISBN | Price | Purchase | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 1, A, part 1 | xxxvi + 392 | 1964 | 0-918986-06-0 | $60.00 |
Book |
PDF,
42 MB |
| Volume 1, A, part 2 | xx + 531 | 1968 | 0-918986-07-9 | $80.00 |
Book |
PDF,
53 MB |
| Volume 2, B | xviii + 366 | 1965 | 0-918986-08-7 | $60.00 |
Book |
PDF,
37 MB |
| Volume 3, D | xiv + 203 | 1959 | 0-918986-09-5 | $50.00 |
Book
|
PDF,
21 MB |
| Volume 4, E | xiv + 435 | 1958 | 0-918986-10-9 | $70.00 |
Book |
PDF,
44 MB |
| Volume 5, G | xii + 158 | 1956 | 0-918986-11-7 | $45.00 |
Book |
PDF,
15 MB |
| Volume 6, H <Het> | xiii + 266 | 1956 | 0-918986-12-5 | $50.00 |
Book |
PDF,
26 MB |
| Volume 7, I/J | xv + 331 | 1960 | 0-918986-13-3 | $60.00 |
Book |
PDF,
33 MB |
| Volume 8, K | xix + 617 | 1971 | 0-918986-14-1 | $80.00 |
Book |
PDF,
60 MB |
| Volume 9, L | xx + 259 | 1973 | 0-918986-15-X | $55.00 |
Book |
PDF,
26 MB |
| Volume 10, M, part 1 | xxiv + 441 | 1977 | 0-918986-16-8 | $130.00 |
Book |
PDF,
43 MB |
| Volume 10, M, part 2 | xx + 324 | 1977 | 0-918986-16-8 | † | — |
PDF,
32 MB |
| Volume 11, N, part 1 | xxiii + 382 | 1980 | 0-918986-17-6 | $130.00 |
Book |
PDF,
38 MB |
| Volume 11, N, part 2 | xxi + 357 | 1980 | 0-918986-17-6 | † | — |
PDF,
35 MB |
| Volume 12, P | xxx + 559 | 2005 | 1-885923-35-X | $130.00 |
Book |
PDF,
4 MB |
| Volume 13, Q | xxiv + 332 | 1982 | 0-918986-24-9 | $70.00 |
Book |
PDF,
32 MB |
| Volume 14, R | xxx + 441 | 1999 | 1-885923-14-7 | $95.00 |
Book |
PDF,
4 MB |
| Volume 15, S | xxiv + 428 | 1984 | 0-918986-40-0 | $80.00 |
Book |
PDF,
39 MB |
| Volume 16, S <Tsade> | xv + 262 | 1962 | 0-918986-18-4 | $65.00 |
Book |
PDF,
26 MB |
| Volume 17, S <Shin>, part 1 | xxviii + 492 | 1989 | 0-918986-55-9 | $75.00 |
Book |
PDF,
48 MB |
| Volume 17, S <Shin>, part 2 | xxviii + 453 | 1992 | 0-918986-78-8 | $70.00 |
Book |
PDF,
43 MB |
| Volume 17, S <Shin>, part 3 | xxxiv + 420 | 1992 | 0-918986-79-6 | $95.00 |
Book |
PDF,
39 MB |
| Volume 18, T | xxx + 500 | 2006 | 1-885923-42-2 | $145.00 |
Book |
PDF,
4 MB |
| Volume 19, T <Tet> | xxxii + 167 | 2006 | 1-885923-43-0 | $105.00 |
Book |
PDF,
2 MB |
| Volume 20, U/W | xxxi + 411 | 2010 | 1-885923-78-3 | $150.00 |
Book |
PDF,
4 MB |
| Volume 21, Z | xv + 170 | 1961 | 0-918986-19-2 | $45.00 |
Book |
PDF,
17 MB |
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