| ADD | C. H. W. Johns, Assyrian Deeds and Documents (Cambridge 1898- 1923) |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| AJSL | American Journal of Semitic Languages |
| ANE | objects in the collections of the British Museum |
| AR | J. Kohler - A. Ungnad, Assyrische Rechtsurkunden (Leipzig 1913) |
| Ash | tablets in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
| BM | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Bu | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| CIS | Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum |
| CRRAI | Rencontre assyriologique internationale, comptes rendus |
| DT | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Ep. Ar. | L. Delaporte, Épigraphes araméens (Paris 1912) |
| Fales Epigraphs | F. M. Fales, Aramaic Epigraphs on Clay Tablets of the Neo-Assyrian Period(Rome 1973) |
| Hug Alt-aramaische Grammatik | V. Hug, Altaramaische Grammatik der Texte des 7. und 6. Jh.s.v. Chr.(Heidelberger Studien zum Alten Orient 4, Heidelberg 1993) |
| IM | tablets in the collections of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad |
| K | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| 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) |
| MM | tablets in the collections of the Mosul Museum |
| N.A.B.U. | Nouvelles Assyriologiques Breves et Utilitaires |
| 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-Assyrzan Royal Grants and Decrees (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 1, Rome 1969) |
| ND | field numbers of tablets excavated at Nimrud |
| Or. | Orientalia, Nova Series |
| PKTA | E. Ebeling, Parfümrezepte und kultische Texte aus Assur (Rome 1952) |
| R | H. C. Rawlinson, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia (London 1861-1884) |
| RA | Revue d'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 |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Th | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| TIM | Texts in the Iraq Museum |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie |
| Aei | Aššur-etel-ilani |
| Asb | Assurbanipal |
| Sši | Sin-šarru-iškun |
| e. | edge |
| r. | reverse |
| rs. | (right) side |
| s. | side (i.e. left edge) |
| ! | collation |
| !! | emendation |
| ? | uncertain reading |
| : :. :: | cuneiform division marks |
| I | vertical word-divider |
| / | linebreak |
| * | graphic variants (see LAS I p. XX) |
| 0 | uninscribed space or non existent 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 |
| + | joined to |
Raija Mattila
Raija Mattila, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun, SAA 14. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 2002; online contents: SAAo/SAA14 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa14/SAA14AbbreviationsandSymbols/]