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The Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD) or The Demotic Dictionary of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago is a project at the University of Chicago Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures to create a comprehensive dictionary of the ancient Egyptian Demotic language.[1][2][3]

Publications

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  • 1978: Janet H. Johnson. "The Chicago Demotic Dictionary Project." Enchoria 8, Sonderband (1978): 11–14.
  • 1987: Robert K. Ritner. "The Chicago Demotic Dictionary Project: A Status Report." In Aspects of Demotic Lexicography: Acts of the Second International Congress for Demotic Studies, Leiden, 19–21 September 1984, edited by Sven P. Vleeming, 145–49. Studia Demotica 1. Leuven: Peeters, 1987.
  • 1994: Janet H. Johnson. "Computers, Graphics, and Papyrology." In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists, pp. 618–20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 1993.
  • 1999: Janet H. Johnson. "The Chicago Demotic Dictionary Project." In Texcorpus und Wörterbuch: Aspekte zur ägyptischen Lexikographie, edited by Stefan Grunert and Ingelore Hafemann, pp. 243–57. Probleme der Ägyptologie 14. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
  • 2000: Janet H. Johnson. Thus Wrote 'Onchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic. Third Edition. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 45. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2000.
  • 2011: Janet H. Johnson. "The Chicago Demotic Dictionary." Oriental Institute News & Notes 208 (2011): 6–8.
  • 2015: Richard Spiegelberg. Wilhelm Spiegelberg: A Life in Egyptology.
  • 2016: Janet H. Johnson. "The Chicago Demotic Dictionary: Its History and Its Future." Oriental Institute News & Notes216 (2013): 3–8.
  • 2019: Janet H. Johnson and Brian P. Muhs. "The Chicago Demotic Dictionary." In Discovery New Pasts: The OI at 100, edited by Theo van den Hour, pp. 201–5. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2019.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Wilford, John Noble (2012-09-17). "Dictionary Translates Ancient Egypt Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  2. ^ Harms, William (2012-09-18). "Chicago Demotic Dictionary refines knowledge of influential language". Phys.Org. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  3. ^ "The Demotic Dictionary of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago". Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  4. ^ "The Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD) | Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures". isac.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2025-12-06.