Assyrian Dictionary

Roth, Martha T.; Reiner, Erica; Biggs, Robert D. (EDT); Oppenheim, A. Leo

ISBN 10: 0918986141 / ISBN 13: 9780918986146

Published by Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1971

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Assyrian Dictionary
• Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0918986141
• ISBN 13: 9780918986146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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 BC to the first century AD, and in geographic area from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Zagros Mountains in the east. The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary has become an invaluable source for the study of the civilisations 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.