Adolf Leo Oppenheim Quotes

Austrian academic

Adolf Leo Oppenheim (7 June 1904 – 21 July 1974) was an American assyriologist. He was editor-in-charge of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute from 1955 to 1974 and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.

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Alternative Names: A. Leo Oppenheim • Adolph Leo Oppenheim

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Both the peacock and the chicken passed through [Mesopotamia] on their way westward[;] the Sumerians called the chicken ‘ the bird from Meluhha’ and the Syrians called it the ‘Akkadian bird’.