Thursday 14 April 2011

Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - complete!

This 21 volume lexicon of ancient Akkadian dialects, 86 years in the making, is finally complete. The first volume was published in 1956.
Martha Roth, Professor of Assyriology, and Editor-in-Charge for the past 11 years, discusses the final volume in this YouTube video

SOAS has access to the online version of the dictionary through the Library catalogue, and two sets in print at L. Ref QED413 / 106059 and 263535

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