| A | Assur (tablets in the collections of the Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri) |
| 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) |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| AHw. | W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (Wiesbaden 1957-81) |
| AJSL | American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures |
| ANET3 | J. B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (3rd edition, Princeton 1969) |
| AnOr | Analecta Orientalia |
| AO | tablets in the collections of the Musée du Louvre |
| AOAT | Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| AOTU | Altorientalische Texte und Untersuchungen |
| ARM | Archives royales de Mari |
| ArOr | Archiv Orientální |
| AS | Assyriological Studies |
| ASJ | Acta Sumerologica (Japan, Hiroshima) |
| Ass | field numbers of tablets excavated at Assur |
| Assyria 1995 | S. Parpola and R. M. Whiting (ed.), Proceedings of the 1Oth Anniversary Symposium of the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Helsinki, September 7-11, 1995 (Helsinki 1997) |
| BA | Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft |
| BaM | Baghdader Mitteilungen |
| BASOR | Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |
| BBEA | B. Landsberger, Brief des Bischofs van Esagila an König Asarhaddon, Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, afd. letterkunde, nieuwe reeks 28/6 (Amsterdam 1965) |
| BiOr | Bibliotheca Orientalis |
| BM | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| BMECCJ 8 | H.I.H. Prince Takahito Mikasa (ed.), Essays on Ancient Anatolia and its Surrounding Civilizations (Bulletin of the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan 8, Wiesbaden 1995) |
| Borger Esarh. | R. Borger, Die Inschriften Asarhaddons, Königs von Assyrien (AfO Beiheft 9, Graz 1956) |
| BSOAS | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |
| Bu | tablets in the collections of The British Museum |
| CAD | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Chicago 1956-) |
| CBS | tablets in the collections of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| CTN | Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud |
| Cuneiform Archives | K. R. Veenhof (ed.), Cuneiform Archives and Libraries: Papers Read at the 30e Rencontre A ssyriologique, Leiden, 4-8 July 1983 (Leiden 1986) |
| Dietrich Aramäer | M. Dietrich, Die Aramäer Südbabyloniens in der Sargonidenzeit (700-648) (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 7, Kevelaer and Neukirchen- Vluyn 1970) |
| DP | F.-M. Allotte de la Füye, Documents présargoniques (Paris 1908-13) |
| van Driel Cult | G. van Driel, The Cult of Aššur (Assen 1969) |
| DT | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Ebeling SVAT | E. Ebeling, Stiftungen und Vorschriften für assyrische Tempel (Berlin 1954) |
| Fales Cento Lettere | Fales F. M. Fales, Cento lettere neo-assire (Venezia 1983) |
| Fales and Lanfranchi Lettere | F. M. Fales and G. B. Lanfranchi, Lettere dalla corte Assira (Venezia 1992) |
| Festschrift Reiner | F. Rochberg-Halton (ed.), Language, Literature, and History: Philological and Historical Studies Presented to Erica Reiner (American Oriental Series 67, New Haven 1987) |
| Frame Babylonia | G. Frame, Babylonia 689-627 B.C.: A Political History (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul 69, Leiden 1992) |
| Friedrich et al. Tell Halaf | J. Friedrich, G. R. Meyer, A. Ungnad and E. F. Weidner, Die Inschriften von Tell Halaf (Archiv für Orientforschung Beiheft 6, Berlin 1940) |
| GCCI | R. P. Dougherty, Goucher College Cuneiform Inscriptions I-II (New Haven 1923, 1933) |
| George BTT | A. R. George, Babylonian Topographical Texts (Leuven 1992) |
| George House | A. R. George, House Most High: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia (Mesopotamian Civilizations 5, Winona Lake 1993) |
| Grayson Chronicles | A. K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (Texts from Cuneiform Sources 5, Glückstadt 1975) |
| ITT | Inventaire des Tablettes de Tello conservées au Musée Impérial Ottoman I-V (Paris 1910- 1921) |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| JCS | Journal of Cuneiform Studies |
| JEOL | Jaarbericht . .. "Ex Oriente Lux" |
| JESHO | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient |
| JNES | Journal of Near Eastern Studies |
| 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 | 0. Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur historischen Inhalts (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 37, Leipzig 1922) |
| KAJ | E. Ebeling, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur juridischen Inhalts (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 50, Leipzig 1927) |
| KAR | E. Ebeling, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur religiösen lnhalts I-II (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 28 and 34, Leipzig 1919, 1922) |
| KAV | 0. Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur verschiedenen Inhalts (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 35, Leipzig 1920) |
| Ki | tablets in the collections of The British Museum |
| King Cat. Suppl. | L. W. King, Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection, Supplement (London 1914) |
| Kramer Le mariage | S. N. Kramer, Le mariage sacré, translated by J. Bottéro (Paris 1983) |
| Labat Hémérologies | R. Labat, Hémérologies et ménologies d 'Assur (Paris 1949) |
| Lambert Love Lyrics | W. G. Lambert, "The Problem of the Love Lyrics," in H. Goedicke and J. Roberts (eds. ), Unity and Diversity (Baltimore 1975) 98-135 |
| Lanfranchi I Cimmeri | G. B. Lanfranchi, I Cimmeri, Emergegza delle élites militari iraniche nel Vicino Oriente (VIII-VII sec. a.C.) (Padova 1990) |
| 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) |
| LSS | Leipziger Semitische Studien |
| Luckenbill Senn. | D. D. Luckenbill, The Annals of Sennacherib (Oriental Institute Publications 2, Chicago 1924) |
| MAOG | Mitteilungen der Altorientalischen Gesellschaft |
| Mel. Pinet | M. Lebeau and Ph. Talon (eds.), Reflets des Deux Fleuves: Volume de mélanges offert à Andre Finet (Akkadica, Supplementum VI, Leuven 1989) |
| Mel. 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) |
| Menzel Tempel | B. Menzel, Assyrische Tempel I-II (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 10, Rome 1981) |
| MVAG | Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatisch-Ägyptischen Gesellschaft |
| N.A.B.U. | Nouvelles Assyriologiques Bréves et Utilitaires |
| NALK | T. Kwasman, Neo-Assyrian Legal Documents in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 14, Rome 1988) |
| ND | field numbers of tablets excavated at Nimrud |
| Ni. | tablets excavated at Nippur, in the collections of the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul |
| OBO | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis |
| OIP | Oriental Institute Publications |
| OLZ | Orientalistische Literaturzeitung |
| Oppenheim LFM | A. L. Oppenheim, Letters from Mesopotamia: Officials, Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia (Chicago 1967) |
| Or | Orientalia, Nova Series |
| PBS | Publications of the Babylonian Section (University Museum, University of Pennsylvania) |
| Pfeiffer State Letters | R. H. Pfeiffer, State Letters of Assyria: A Transliteration and Translation of 355 Official Assyrian Letters Dating from the Sargonid Period (722-625 B.C.) (American Oriental Series 6, New Haven 1935) |
| PhAss | photographs taken during the German excavations in Assur |
| PKTA | E. Ebeling, Parfümrezepte und kultische Texte aus Assur (Rome 1952) |
| PNA | The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire |
| Pongratz-Leisten Ina šulmi īrub | B. Pongratz-Leisten, Ina šulmi īrub: Die kulttopographische und ideologische Programmatik der akītu-Prozession in Babylon und Assyrien im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. (Baghdader Forschungen 16, Mainz 1994) |
| PSBA | Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology |
| R | H. C. Rawlinson, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia (London 1861-84) |
| RA | Revue d'assyriologie |
| RlA | Reallexikon der 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) |
| RT | Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes |
| SAA | State Archives of Assyria |
| SAAB | State Archives of Assyria Bulletin |
| SAAS | State Archives of Assyria Studies |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| STC 2 | L. W. King, The Seven Tablets of Creation II (London 1902) |
| StOr | Studia Orientalia |
| Streck Asb | M. Streck, Assurbanipal I-III (Vorderasiatische Bibliothek 7, Leipzig 1916) |
| STT | 0. R. Gurney and P. Hulin, The Sultantepe Tablets I-II (London 1957-64) |
| Tadmor T-P III | H. Tadmor, The Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III, King of Assyria (Jerusalem 1994) |
| TCAE | J. N. Postgate, Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 3, Rome 1974) |
| TCL | Textes cunéiformes du Louvre |
| Th | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Thureau-Dangin RAcc. | F. Thureau-Dangin, Rituels accadiens (Paris 1921) |
| TIM | Texts in the Iraq Museum |
| TKSM | Top Kapi Sarayi Müzesi |
| UET | Ur Excavations, Texts |
| Unger Babylon | E. Unger, Babylon: Die heilige Stadt nach der Beschreibung der Babylonier (Leipzig 1931) |
| VA | inscriptions in the collections of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin |
| VAT | tablets in the collections of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin |
| VAS | Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin |
| Watanabe BaM Beih. 3 | K. Watanabe, Die adê-Vereidigung anlässlich der Thronfolgeregelung Asarhaddons (Baghdader Mitteilungen Beiheft 3, Berlin 1987) |
| WdO | Die Welt des Orients |
| WVDOG | Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft |
| WZKM | Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes |
| YOS | Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts |
| 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) |
| W | in the critical apparatus (followed by page number) refers to collations in L. Waterman, Royal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire I-IV (Ann Arbor 1930- 1936) |
| Bab. | Babylonian |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| NB | Neo-Babylonian |
| OA | Neo-Assyrian |
| DN | divine name |
| GN | geographical 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 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 |
Steven W. Cole
Steven W. Cole, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Priests to Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal, SAA 13. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1998; online contents: SAAo/SAA13 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa13/SAA13AbbreviationsandSymbols/]