The Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian) lexicon is currently accessible via
two reference dictionaries, Wofram von Soden's Akkadisches
Handworterbuch (1958-1981) and The Assyrian Dictionary of the University
of Chicago (1956-2010). However, due to a large number of new cuneiform
texts published during the last decades, both dictionaries are outdated
in part, especially in their earlier volumes. The Supplement to the
Akkadian Dictionaries (SAD), funded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft, is meant to update both dictionaries. Without
any claim to be comprehensive, SAD evaluates a strictly defined text
corpus and a limited amount of secondary literature. SAD pays particular
attention to new words, new verbal stems, and references which expand
the distribution of a word or help to define its meaning, form or
etymology. SAD volume G, K, Q contains ca. 1000 lemmata, among them
almost 200 new words.