| ABL | R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Letters (London and Chicago 1892-1914) |
| ADD | C.H.W. Johns, Assyrian Deeds and Documents (Cambridge 1898-1923) |
| AO | tablets on the collections of the Musée du Louvre |
| 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) |
| BM | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Borger Esarh. | R. Borger, Die Inschriften Esarhaddons, Königs von Assyrien, (AfO Beiheft 9, Graz 1956) |
| Bu | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| CAD | Chicago Assyrian Dictionary |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| Deller Zagros | K. Deller, Ausgewählte neuassyrische Briefe betreffend Urarṭu zur Zeit Sargons II., in P.E. Pecorella — M. Salvini, Tra lo Zagros e l'Urmia. Ricerche storiche ed archeologiche nell'Azerbaibgian iraniano (Rome 1984) |
| DT | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| GPA | J. N. Postgate, The Governor's Palace Archive (CTN2, London 1973) |
| JRAS | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |
| K | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| KAV | O. Schoeder, Keilschriftexte aus Assur verschiedenen Inhalts (Leipzig 1920) |
| LAS | S. Parpola, Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal I, II (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 5/1-2, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1970, 1983) |
| Lie Sar. | A.G. Lie, The Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria I (Paris 1929) |
| Ménant, Catalogue | J. Ménant, Catalogue des cylindres orientaux du Cabinet Royal des Médailles de la Haye (La Haye 1878) |
| N | tablets in the collections of the Musée du Louvre |
| ND | field numbers of tablets excavated at Nimrud |
| NL | H.W.F. Saggs, "The Nimrud Letters", Iraq 17 (1955), 21ff., etc. |
| OrAnt | Oriens Antiquus |
| Payne-Smith | J. Payne Smith (ed.), A Compendious Syriac Dictionary (Oxford 1903) |
| R | H. C. Rawlinson, The Cuneiform Inscriptions Western Asia (London 1861-1884) |
| RCAE | L. Waterman, Royal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire, I-IV (Ann Arbor 1930-1936) |
| RlA | Reallexikon der Assyriologie |
| Rm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Rost Tigl. | P. Rost, Die Keilschrifttexte Tiglat-Pilesers III (Leipzig 1893) |
| SAA | State Archives of Assyria |
| SAAB | State Archives of Assyria Bulletin |
| Salvini Zagros | M. Salvini, La storia della regione in epoca urartea. I documenti, in P.E. Pecorella — M. Salvini, Tra lo Zagros e l'Urmia. Ricerche storiche ed archeologiche nell'Azerbaigian iraniano (Rome 1984) |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| TCAE | J.N. Postgate, Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 3, Rome 1974) |
| TCL | Text cunéiformes du Louvre |
| TCL 3 | F. Thureau-Dangin, Une relation de la huitième campagne de Sargon (Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités Orientales. Textes Cunéiformes 3, Paris 1912) |
| Th | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Winckler Sar. | H. Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargons (Leipzig 1889) |
| ZA | Zeitschrift for 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 |
| Bab. | Babylonian |
| Hebr. | Hebrew |
| Syr. | Syriac |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| NB | Neo-Babylonian |
| DN | divine name |
| GN | geographical name |
| RN | royal name |
| e. | edge |
| obv. | obverse |
| r., rev. | reverse |
| s. | (left) side |
| coll. | collated, collation |
| mng. | meaning |
| unpub. | unpublished |
| var. | variant |
| ! | 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 |
| (( )) | sign erroneously added by scribe |
| [[ ]] | erasure |
| [...] | minor break (one or two missing words) |
| [......] | major break |
| ... | untranslatable word |
| ....... | untranslatable passage |
| → | see also |
| + | joined to |
Giovanni B. Lanfranchi
Giovanni B. Lanfranchi, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces, SAA 5. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1990; online contents: SAAo/SAA05 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2025 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa05/SAA5AbbreviationsandSymbols/]