| A | Assur (tablets in the collections of Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri) |
| AAA | Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology |
| ABL | R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Letters (London and Chicago 1892-1914) |
| ABRT | J. A. Craig, Assyrian and Babylonian Religious Texts (Leipzig 1895) |
| ADD | C. H. W. Johns, Assyrian Deeds and Documents (Cambridge 1898-1923) |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| AHw. | W. van Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (Wiesbaden 1957-81) |
| AJSL | American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures |
| AR | J. Kohler - A. Ungnad, Assyrische Rechtsurkunden (Leipzig 1913) |
| AS | Assyriological Studies |
| Ass | field numbers of tablets excavated at Assur |
| Bauer Asb | Th. Bauer, Das lnschriftenwerk Assurbanipals I-II ( Leipzig 1933) |
| BaM | Baghdader Mitteilungen |
| BM | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Borger Esarh. | R. Borger, Die lnschriften Asarhaddons, Königs von Assyrien (AfO Beiheft 9, Graz 1956) |
| CAD | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Chicago 1956- ) |
| Cat. | C. Bezold, Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection I-V (London 1889-99) |
| CTN | Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud |
| CTN 4 | D. J. Wiseman and J. A. Black, Literary texts from the temple of Nabû (Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud 4, London forthcoming) |
| DT | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Fales Censimenti | F. M. Fales, Censimenti e catasti di epoca neo-assira (Rome 1973) |
| Fales Epigraphs | F. M. Fales, Aramaic Epigraphs on Clay Tablets of the Neo-Assyrian Period (Rome 1986) |
| FNALD | J. N. Postgate, Fifty Neo-Assyrian Legal Documents (Warminster 1976) |
| Grayson Chronicles | A. K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (Texts from Cuneiform Sources 5, Glückstadt 1975) |
| HKL | R. Borger, Handbuch der Keilschriftliteratur I-III (Berlin 1967-75) |
| Hunger Colophons | H. Hunger, Babylonische und assyrische Kolophone (Alter Orient und altes Testament 2, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1968) |
| JEOL | Jaarbericht ... "Ex Oriente Lux" |
| JRAS | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |
| K | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| K. | Konstantinopel (tablets in the collections of the Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri) |
| KAH | O. Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur historischen lnhalts (Leipzig 1922) |
| KAV | O. Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur verschiedenen lnhalts (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) |
| Luckenbill Senn. | D. D. Luckenbill, The Annals of Sennacherib (Oriental Institute Publications 2, Chicago 1924) |
| Lyon Sargon | D. G. Lyon, Keilschrifttexte Sargon's Königs von Assyrien (722- 705 v. Chr.) (Assyriologische Bibliothek 5, Leipzig 1883) |
| Menzel Tempel | B. Menzel, Assyrische Tempel I-II (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 10, Rome 1981) |
| MVAG | Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatisch-Ägyptischen Gesellschaft |
| NALK | T. Kwasman, Neo-Assyrian Legal Documents in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 14, Rome 1988) |
| 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 |
| Pedersén Archives | O. Pedersén, Archives and Libraries in the City of Assur I-II (Uppsala 1985-86) |
| PKOM | Publicationen der kaiserlich osmanischen Museen (Konstantinopel) |
| PKTA | E. Ebeling, Parfümrezepte und kultische Texte aus Assur (Rome 1952) |
| PSBA | Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology |
| R | H. C. Rawlinson, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia (London 1861-84) |
| RIA | 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 |
| Seux Epithètes | M.-J. Seux, Epithètes royales akkadiennes et sumériennes (Paris 1967) |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Streck Asb | M. Streck, Assurbanipal I-III (Vorderasiatische Bibliothek 7, Leipzig 1916) |
| STT | O. R. Gurney and P. Hulin, The Sultantepe Tablets I-II (London 1957-64) |
| TCAE | J. N. Postgate, Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 3, Rome 1974) |
| Th | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| VA | inscriptions in the collections of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin |
| VAT | tablets in the collections of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie |
| Zadok West Semites | R. Zadok, On West Semites in Babylonia during the Chaldean and Achaemenid Periods. An Onomastic Study (Jerusalem 1977) |
| Bab. | Babylonian |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| OA | Old Assyrian |
| DN | divine name |
| GN | geographical name |
| PN | personal name |
| e. | edge |
| obv. | obverse |
| r., rev. | reverse |
| rs. | right side |
| s. | (left) side |
| coll. | collated, collation |
| mng. | meaning |
| unpub. | unpublished |
| ! | 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 |
| + | joined to |
Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting
Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', Grants, Decres and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period, SAA 12. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1995; online contents: SAAo/SAA12 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2025 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa12/SAA12AbbreviationsandSymbols/]