Accadian concise dictionary

The Akkadian Concise Dictionary (abbreviation "AHw") is a dictionary of the Akkadian language .

The work was edited using the lexical estate of Bruno Meissner von Wolfram von Soden . It was published by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in deliveries from 1959 to 1981 by Harrassowitz Verlag . The deliveries made three volumes.

The more extensive standard dictionary of the Akkadian language in English is the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD). In 1999 the one-volume Concise Dictionary of Akkadian appeared , which was created on the basis of the concise dictionary with references to the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary and other sources.

Bibliographical information

• Accadian concise dictionary , using the lexical estate of Bruno Meissner (1868–1947), edited by Wolfram von Soden. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden
  • Volume 1: A-L. 1965. ISBN 3-447-02613-8
  • Volume 2: M-S. 1972. ISBN 3-447-01471-7
  • Volume 3: S – Z and supplements. 1981. ISBN 3-447-02187-X

literature

• Rykle Borger : Old Oriental Lexicography - History and Problems. To the completion of W. von Soden, Akkadian hand dictionary . ( News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class 1984, 2) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1984. ISBN 3-525-85116-2
• Jeremy Black, Andrew George, Nicholas Postgate (Eds.): A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999. 2nd corrected edition 2000. ISBN 3-447-04264-8