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Assyrian Dictionary: Complete in 21 Volumes Hardcover - 1956
by Martha T. Roth (Editor)
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- Title Assyrian Dictionary: Complete in 21 Volumes
- Author Martha T. Roth (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 1
- Volumes 26
- Language ENG
- Publisher Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, IL
- Date 1956
- ISBN 9780918986054 / 0918986052
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress subjects Akkadian language - English
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 56058292
- Dewey Decimal Code 492.1
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Assyrian Dictionary: 22 volume set
by Roth, Martha T. [Editor]
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Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x33x11. 22 volume set. Lacking 5 volumes from complete set. Bound in publisher's blue cloth. Hardcover. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Some spines sunned. Generally clean, occasional marking to a couple of pages. <br> "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,…
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