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

† sold as set with pt. 1 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 we