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The New Assyrian Dictionary...Finally

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Watch this video about a dictionary that took more than 85 years to create. Martha Roth, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology, discusses the final volume of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a comprehensive lexicon of ancient Akkadian dialects

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