Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
Available
Author/Editor
- Martha T. Roth
Description
Taken from the project website (Accessed 2025-02-27):
The CAD project was initiated in the early 1920s, not long after James Henry Breasted founded the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures in 1919, and barely one hundred years after the decipherment of the cuneiform script. 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.