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Adolf Leo Oppenheim

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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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  • 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’.
    • Oppenheim AL 1977 Ancient Mesopotamia Chicago/London, Univ. Chicago Press.(p 317: quoted from Kazanas, N. (2009). Indo-Aryan origins and other Vedic issues. Aditya Prakashan. ch. 7
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