1984 and 1998, four volumes of the dictionary were published, covering the letters A and B. A large measure of inspiration for this project can be ascribed to Sjöberg's days in Chicago, as a contributor to the Assyrian Dictionary. Sjöberg received a number of honours. Among them, an honorary doctorate in Theology at Uppsala University in 1994, and in 2005 he was elected member of the Honorary Council of the International Association for Assyriology. In 2010, having held his doctorate for 50 years, he became a jubilee doctor at the Uppsala University spring doctoral promotions ceremony. He has had two Festschrift volumes published in his honour, the first to celebrate his 65th birthday in 1989; the second was published in 2013 (see Selected writings for both of them). He was also an elected member of the American Philosophical Society. Åke Sjöberg's high standards of philological treatments of literary and religious texts, and his lexicographical expertise in Sumerian are widely acknowledged. Apart from his dissertation and the four volumes of the PSD, he published a monograph treating the collection of Sumerian Temple Hymns (based on notes and copies of Eugen Bergmann, with a chapter by Gene Gragg), and scores of academic articles in English, German and Swedish, treating a wide variety of linguistic and cultural matters related to Near Eastern societies. Return to Sweden Åke Sjöberg's retirement in 1996 did not lead to his work coming to a halt; something that his long list of publications attests to. In early 2004 he and his wife Gunnil moved back to Uppsala. Despite his age Sjöberg regularly participated in seminars at Uppsala University, sharing his experiences and knowledge to younger generations of scholars and students. Sjöberg died in Uppsala, Sweden, on 8 August 2014, one week after his ninetieth birthday. Selected writings References 1924 births 2014 deaths People from Sala Municipality Uppsala University alumni University of Chicago people University of Pennsylvania faculty Linguists from Sweden Assyriologists Members of the American Philosophical Society