| ABL | R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Letters (London and Chicago 1892-1914) |
| ADB | C. H. W. Johns, An Assyrian Doomsday Book (Leipzig 1901) |
| ADD | C. H. W. Johns, Assyrian Deeds and Documents (Cambridge 1898-1923) |
| Albenda Palace of Sargon | P. Albenda, The Palace of Sargon King of Assyria (Paris 1986) |
| ARAB | D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia (Chicago 1926-27) |
| BibNat | Bibliothèque Nationale |
| BiOr | Bibliotheca Orientalis |
| BM | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| BSA | Bulletin on Sumerian Agriculture |
| Bu | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| CAD | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Chicago 1956- ) |
| CCBN | L. Delaporte, Catalogue des cylindres ... de la Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris 1910) |
| CCL | L. Delaporte, Musée du Louvre, catalogue des cylindres orientaux ... I, II (Paris 1920, 1923) |
| CRRAI | Rencontre assyriologique internationale, comptes rendus |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| CTN | Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud |
| DT | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Fales Censimenti | F. M. Fales, Censimenti e catasti di epoca neo-assira (Studi Economici e tecnologici 2, Rome 1973) |
| Fales Epigraphs | F. M. Fales, Aramaic Epigraphs on Clay Tablets of the Neo-Assyrian Period (Studi Semitici ns 2, Rome 1986) |
| Forrer Provinzeinteilung | E. Forrer, Die Provinzeinteilung des assyrischen Reiches (Leipzig 1920) |
| GPA | J. N. Postgate, The Governor 's Palace Archive(Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud 2, London 1973) |
| IM | tablets in the collections of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad |
| JESHO | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient |
| K | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| KB | Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek |
| Ki | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| 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) |
| N | tablets in the collections of the Musee du Louvre |
| NARGD | J. N. Postgate, Neo-Assyrian Royal Grants and Decrees (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 1, Rome 1969) |
| ND | field numbers of tablets excavated at Nimrud |
| Or. | Orientalia, Nova Series |
| R | H. C. Rawlinson, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia (London 1861-84) |
| RlA | Reallexikon der Assyriologie |
| Rm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| SAA | State Archives of Assyria |
| SAAB | State Archives of Assyria Bulletin |
| SAAS | State Archives of Assyria Studies |
| SKT | H. Winckler, Sammlung van Keilschrifttexten (Leipzig 1893-95) |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| SVAT | E. Ebeling, Stiftungen und Vorscriften für Assyrische Tempel (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts fiir Orientforschung 23, Berlin 1954) |
| TCAE | J. N. Postgate, Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 3, Rome 1974) |
| TFS | S . M. Dalley, J. N. Postgate, The Tablets from Fort Shalmaneser (Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud 3, Oxford 1984) |
| Th | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Toponyms | S. Parpola, Neo-Assyrian Toponyms (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 6, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1970) |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| DN | divine name |
| GN | geographical name |
| PN | personal name |
| RN | royal name |
| syr. | Syriac |
| 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 p. XXXVIII and 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 |
| + | joint to |
F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate
F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration, SAA 11. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1995; online contents: SAAo/SAA11 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2021 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa11/AbbreviationsandSymbols/]