Image region of Mesopotamiaauthor: Yunanto Wiji Utomo | Tri WahonoAll Unique - Assyrian Dictionary Project to identify and explain the words written in capital letters on a piece of clay nails whichwas carved during the Babylonian, Assyrians and others in the region of Mesopotamia between 2500 BC - 100 finally finishedafter worked for 90 years. University of Chicago announced on Sunday (05/06/2011).
"I feel proud and privileged have completed this project," said Martha Roth, editor of the dictionary project this ambitious anddean at the Department of Humanities at the University of Chicagothat involved a project since 1979. "I feel that this project is the foundation on how to run the other dictionary projects in the future," he added.
Meanwhile, Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, which also involved the project said, "Assyrian Dictionaryis the greatest effort that I know of to systematically collect, codifyand make the Akkadian language at the heart of textual records inhis birthplace, Mesopotamia , can be accessed. "
In working on the project for decades, researchers fill millions ofindex cards with references to the use of 28 000 words. The collected words have meaning and refers to the context and the use of different ways. For example, in the dictionary that has beencompleted, the word "umu" which means "day" has the meaningand use described in 17 pages.
Assyrian Dictionary Project was started in 1921, initiated by HenryJames, founder of the Oriental Institute and the University of Chicago archaeologist leading the Middle East. Scientists found that the Assyrian language is actually a dialect of another Semiticlanguage, Akkadian ie. Therefore, this dictionary can also be abridge to understand the language of Akkadian.
source: kompas.com
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