| A | Aššur collection of the Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul |
| A Babylon | Collection of the Nebuchadnezzar Museum, Babylon |
| AH | Abu Habba collection of the British Museum, London |
| AO | Collection of Antiquités Orientales of the Musée du Louvre, Paris |
| Ash | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
| Ass | Prefix for excavation numbers from the German excavations at Aššur |
| B | Signature of tablets in the Babylon collection of the Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul |
| BE | Prefix for excavation numbers from the German excavations at Babylon |
| BM | British Museum, London |
| Bu | E.A.W. Budge collection of the British Museum, London |
| CBS | Babylonian Section of the University Museum, Philadelphia |
| D | Signature of tablets in the Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul |
| DT | Daily Telegraph collection of the British Museum, London |
| EŞ | Eşki Şark Eserleri Müzesi of the Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul |
| FNM | Signature of objects in the collections of the Finnish National Museum, Helsinki |
| H | Signature of objects in the collections of the City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
| HMA | Signature of objects in Hearst Museum of Anthropology of the University of California at |
| Berkeley | |
| HS | Hilprecht collection of Babylonian Antiquities of Fr. Schiller Universität, Jena |
| IM | Iraq Museum, Baghdad |
| K | Kuyunjik collection of the British Museum, London |
| Ki | L.W. King collection of the British Museum, London |
| LB | A.F.M.Th. de Liagre Böhl Collection, Leiden |
| ML | Signature of cuneiform materials in the McLennan Library belonging to the McGill University |
| Ethnological collections, Montreal | |
| MMA | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| N | 1) Nippur collection of the University Museum, Philadelphia |
| 2) Siglum (infix) for excavation numbers from the American excavations at Nippur | |
| NBC | James B. Nies collection of the Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven |
| ND | Prefix for excavation numbers from the British excavations at Nimrud |
| NT | Excavation numbers of inscribed objects from the American excavations at Nippur |
| PMA | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| PT | Prefix for excavation numbers for objects found on the Persepolis terrace by the Oriental Institute expedition |
| PTS | Princeton Theological Seminary |
| Rm | H. Rassam collection of the British Museum, London |
| SE | Signature of objects in the collections of the Couvent Saint-Étienne, Jerusalem |
| SF | Signature of objects in the Miho Museum, Koka |
| Sm | G. Smith collection of the British Museum, London |
| U | Prefix of excavation numbers from the British-American excavations at Ur (Tell al Muqayyar) |
| UM | University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia |
| VA | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin |
| VA Ass | Aššur collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin |
| VA Bab | Babylon collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin |
| VAG | Casts (Güsse) in the collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin |
| VAT | Tablets in the collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin |
| W | Prefix for excavation numbers from the German excavations at Uruk/Warka |
| W-B | Signature of objects in the Weld-Blundell collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
| WML | Signature of objects in collections of the the World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool |
| YBC | Babylonian collection of the Yale University Library, New Haven |
Jamie Novotny, Joshua Jeffers & Grant Frame
Jamie Novotny, Joshua Jeffers & Grant Frame, 'Object Signatures', RINAP 5: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, and Sîn-šarra-iškun, The RINAP/RINAP 5 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2023 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/rinap53frontmatter/objectsignatures/]