The Akkadisches Handwörterbuch is a German lexicon of Akkadian language

Akkadian language

Akkadian is an extinct Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian, an unrelated language isolate...

 by Wolfram von Soden

Wolfram von Soden

Wolfram Freiherr von Soden was a German Assyriologist.-Life and work:Born in Berlin, von Soden studied under Benno Landsberger at Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1931, at age 23, with his thesis Der hymnisch-epische Dialekt des Akkadischen...

 often abbreviated as "AHw" which is a standard work for study of the Ancient Near East. It complements the Reallexikon der Assyriologie

Reallexikon der Assyriologie

The Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie , formerly Reallexikon der Assyriologie is a German-language encyclopedia on the Ancient Near East, founded by Bruno Meissner in 1922, reformed in 1966 by editor Ruth Opificius and publisher Wolfram von Soden.From 1972 to 2004...

, RLA, reformed in 1966 by editor Ruth Opificius and publisher Wolfram von Soden from the work of Bruno Meissner

Bruno Meissner

Bruno Meissner also Bruno Meißner was a German assyriologist.From 1904 to 1921 Meissner was professor at the University of Breslau, then from 1921 professor of assyriology at the University of Berlin. His main work on Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts appeared in 1920 and 1925 in two volumes...

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The major English language lexicon of Assyrian is the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary

Chicago Assyrian Dictionary

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary or The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is a nine-decade project at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute to compile a dictionary of the Akkadian language and its dialects, focusing on the New-Assyrian forms...

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