| ABL | R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Letters (London and Chicago 1892-1914) |
| ABRT | J.A.Craig, Assyrian and Babylonian Religious Texts. (Leipzig 1895) |
| ADB | C.H.W. Johns, An Assyrian Doomsday Book (Leipzig 1901) |
| ADD | C.H.W. Johns, Assyrian Deeds and Documents (Cambridge 1898-1923) |
| AnSt | Anatolian Studies |
| AOAT | Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| ARINH | F.M. Fales (ed.), Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: New Horizons in Literary, Ideological and Historical Analysis (Orientis Antiqui Collectio XVIII, Rome 1981) |
| BiOr | Bibliotheca Orientalis |
| CAD | Chicago Assyrian Dictionary |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| CTN | Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud |
| CRRA | Compte rendu, Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale |
| DT | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| GPA | J.N.Postgate, The Governor's Palace Archive (CTN2, London 1973) |
| Grayson Chronicles | A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (Texts from Cuneiform Sources 5, New York 1975) |
| Hh | lexical series HAR.ra=hubullu |
| JEN | E.Chiera, Joint Expedition with the Iraq Museum at Nuzi |
| K | tablets in the Kouyunjik collection of the British Museum |
| KAV | O. Schoeder, Keilschriftexte aus Assur verschiedenen Inhalts (Leipzig 1920) |
| Lacheman AV | M.A. Morrison and D.I. Owen (eds.), Studies ... in Honor of Ernest R. Lacheman on his 75th Birthday (Winona Lake 1981) |
| LAS | S. Parpola, Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal I, II (Neukirchen-Vluyn 1970, 1983) |
| Lie Sar. | A.G. Lie, The Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria I (Paris 1929) |
| ND | field numbers of tablets excavated at Nimrud |
| NL | H.W. Saggs, "The Nimrud Letters", Iraq 17 (1955), 21ff., etc. |
| OIP | Oriental Institute Publications |
| Pract. Voc. Assur | Practical Vocabulary of Assur |
| RGTC | Repértoire Géographique de Textes Cunéiformes (Wiesbaden 1974ff) |
| RlA | Reallexikon der Assyriologie |
| Rm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| SAA | State Archives of Assyria |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| StOr | Studia Orientalia |
| Tell Halaf | J. Friedrich et alii, Die Inschriften vom Tell Halaf (Archiv für Orientforschung, Beiheft 6, Neudruck Osnabrück 1967) |
| TCAE | J.N. Postgate, Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 3, Rome 1984) |
| RCAE | L. Waterman, Royal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire (Ann Arbor 1930-1936) |
| VS | Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler der Königlichen Museen zu Berlin |
| VTE | D.J. Wiseman, The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon (London 1958) |
| WO | Welt des Orients |
| ZA | Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie |
W and Y in the critical apparatus (followed by page number) refer to collations in RCAE and S. Ylvisaker, Zur babylonischen und assyrischen Grammatik (LSS 5/6, Leipzig 1912) respectively.
| Aram. | Aramaic |
| Babyl. | Babylonian |
| MA | Middle Assyrian |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| NB | Neo-Babylonian |
| e. | edge |
| Obv. | obverse |
| r., Rev. | reverse |
| s. | (left) side |
| mng. | meaning |
| unpub. | unpublished |
| ! | Collation |
| !! | emendation |
| ? | uncertain reading |
| : :. :: | cuneiform division marks |
| * | graphic variants (see LAS I p. XX) |
| 0 | uninscribed space or nonexistent sign |
| x | broken or undeciphered sign |
| ( ) | supplied word or sign |
| [[ ]] | erasure |
| [...] | minor break (one or two missing words) |
| [......] | major break |
| ... | untranslatable word |
| ....... | untranslatable passage |
| → | see |
Simo Parpola
Simo Parpola, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West, SAA 1. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1987; online contents: SAAo/SAA01 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2025 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa01/SAA1AbbreviationsandSymbols/]