The Assyrian Dictionary of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago (CAD)

 [First posted on AWOL 19 September 2012, updated [new institutional name] 22 June 2023]

The Assyrian Dictionary of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago (CAD)

 [Formerly: The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD[)

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. 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.

Completed in 2010, the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary has become an invaluable source for the study of the civilizations of the ancient Near East, their political and cultural history, their achievements in the sciences of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, linguistics, and the timeless beauty of their poetry.

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Volume	Pagination	Date	ISBN	Price
Volume 1, A, part 1	xxxvi + 392	1964	978-0-91-898606-1	$60.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 1, A, part 2	xx + 531	1968	978-0-91-898607-8	$80.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 2, B	xviii + 366	1965	978-0-91-898608-5	$60.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 3, D	xiv + 203	1959	978-0-91-898609-2	$50.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 4, E	xiv + 435	1958	978-0-91-898610-8	$70.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 5, G	xii + 158	1956	978-0-91-898611-5	$45.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 6, H [Het]	xiii + 266	1956	978-0-91-898612-2	$50.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 7, I/J	xv + 331	1960	978-0-91-898613-9	$60.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 8, K	xix + 617	1971	978-0-91-898614-6	$80.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 9, L	xx + 259	1973	978-0-91-898615-3	$55.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 10, M, part 1	xxiv + 441	1977	978-0-91-898616-0	$130.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 10, M, part 2	xx + 324	1977	978-0-91-898616-0	†	Download Terms of Use
Volume 11, N, part 1	xxiii + 382	1980	978-0-91-898617-7	$130.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 11, N, part 2	xxi + 357	1980	978-0-91-898617-7	†	Download Terms of Use
Volume 12, P	xxx + 559	2005	978-1-88-592335-6	$130.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 13, Q	xxiv + 332	1982	978-0-91-898624-5	$70.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 14, R	xxx + 441	1999	978-1-88-592314-1	$95.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 15, S	xxiv + 428	1984	978-0-91-898632-0	$80.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 16, S [Tsade]	xv + 262	1962	978-0-91-898618-4	$65.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 17, S [Shin], part 1	xxviii + 492	1989	978-0-91-898655-9	$75.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 17, S [Shin], part 2	xxviii + 453	1992	978-0-91-898678-8	$70.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 17, S [Shin], part 3	xxxiv + 420	1992	978-0-91-898679-5	$95.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 18, T	xxx + 500	2006	978-1-88-592342-4	$145.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 19, T [Tet]	xxxii + 167	2006	978-1-88-592343-1	$105.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 20, U/W	xxxi + 411	2010	978-1-88-592378-3	$150.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use
Volume 21, Z	xv + 170	1961	978-0-91-898619-1	$45.00	Purchase Download Terms of Use