ISBN10: 0918986052, ISBN13: 9780918986054, [publisher: Oriental Institute, University Of Chicago, Chcago IL] Hardcover 4 to, two volume set, sold as one unit. 382 pp & 357 pp. Blue buckram, top edge red, red label on spines. corners bumped and rubbed, hinges solid, binding square. Eps clean, interior clean. Notes from Wikipedia: ". conference at the Oriental Institute on June 6, 2011, scholars assessed the significance of the dictionary.[2] Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute, said it "is an indispensable research tool for any scholar anywhere who seeks to explore the written record of the Mesopotamian civilization."[2] It is one of several large-scale United States dictionary projects for ancient Middle Eastern languages, including the Chicago Hittite Dictionary, the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, and the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon.[3]" NOTE: approximately seven (7) pounds shipping weight. Shipping rates will increase outside the United States.
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Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 1979 Hardcover Very Good Size: 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. "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, 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 ...