| ABCD | F. Rochberg-Halton, Aspects of Babylonian Celestial Divination (AfO Beiheft 22, Horn 1989) |
| ABL | R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Letters (London and Chicago 1892-1914) |
| ACh | Ch. Virolleaud, L'astrologie chaldéene (Paris 1907-1912) |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| AHw. | W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (Wiesbaden 1957-81) |
| AO | tablets in the collections of the Musée du Louvre |
| AOAT | Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| ARM | Archives Royales de Mari |
| AS | Assyriological Studies |
| BA | Beiträge zur Assyriologie |
| BAM | F. Köcher, Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen (Berlin 1963-) |
| BM | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| BOR | Babylonian and Oriental Record |
| BPO | E. Reiner and D. Pingree, Babylonian Planetary Omens (Malibu 1975-) |
| BSGW | Berichte der Sächsichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften |
| Bu | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| CAD | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Chicago 1956-) |
| Cat. | C. Bezold, Catalogue of the Cuneifornt Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection I-V (London 1889-1899) |
| Choix | A. Boissier, Choix des textes relatifs à la divination assyro-babylonienne I-II (Genève 1905-19) |
| CRRAI | Rencontre assyriologique internationale, comptes rendus |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| DT | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| EAE | Enuma Anu Enlil |
| Festschrift Moran | T. Abusch, J . Huehnergard and Piotr Steinkeller (eds.), Lingering Over Words. Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Literature in Honor of William L. Moran (Atlanta 1990) |
| Gössmann Planetarium | P. Gössmann, Planetarium Babylonicum (Šumerisches Lexikon 4/2, Rome 1950) |
| HKL | R. Borger, Handbuch der Keilschriftliteratur I-III (Berlin 1967-75) |
| JCS | Journal of Cuneiform Studies |
| Ki | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Labat Calendrier | R. Labat, Un calendrier babylonien des travaux, des signes et des mois (Paris 1965) |
| Lambert-Millard Atra-hasis | W. G. Lambert and A.R. Millard, Atra-hasis, the Babylonian Story of the Flood (Oxford 1969) |
| 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) |
| Mélanges Garelli | D. Charpin and F. Joannès (eds.), Marchands, diplomates et empereurs: Études sur la civilisation mésopotamienne offerts à Paul Garelli (Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, Paris 1991) |
| MUL.APIN | H. Hunger and D. Pingree, MUL.APIN. An Astronomical Compendium in Cuneiform (AfO Beiheft 24, Horn 1989) |
| Nv. | tablets in the collections of Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri |
| Or. | Orientalia, Nova Series |
| Pinches Wedge-writing | T. G. Pinches, Texts in the Babylonian Wedge-Writing (London 1882) |
| PSBA | Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology |
| RA | Revue d'Assyriologie |
| Rm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| RMA | R. C. Thompson, The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon I-II (London 1900) |
| SAA | State Archives of Assyria |
| SAAB | State Archives of Assyria Bulletin |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Starr Rituals | I. Starr, The Rituals of the Diviner (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 12, Malibu 1983) |
| TCL | Textes cunéiformes du Louvre |
| VAB | Vorderasiatische Bibliothek (Leipzig) |
| Weidner Gestirn-Darstellungen | E. Weidner, Gestirn-Darstellungen auf babylonischen Tontafeln (Wien 1967) |
| WO | Die Welt des Orients |
| YOS | Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie |
| Ass. | Assyrian |
| Bab. | Babylonian |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| NB | Neo-Babylonian |
| OB | Old Babylonian |
| SB | Standard Babylonian |
| PN | personal name |
| e. | edge |
| obv. | obverse |
| r., rev. | reverse |
| rs. | right side |
| 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 o r 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, (in score transliteration) continuing line |
Hermann Hunger
Hermann Hunger, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings, SAA 8. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1992; online contents: SAAo/SAA08 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2025 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa08/SAA8AbbreviationsandSymbols/]