| 80-7-19 etc. | tablets in the collection of The British Museum |
| ABL | R.F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Letters (London and Chicago 1892-1914) |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| AfO Bh | Archiv für Orientforschung, Beihefte |
| AJSL | American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures |
| AOAT | Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| ARINH | F.M. Fales (ed.), Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: New Horizons in Literary, Ideological and Historical Analysis (Orientis Antiqui Collectio XVIII Rome 1981) |
| AS | Assyiriological Studies |
| BaM Bh | Baghdader Mitteilungen, Beihefte |
| BM | tablets in the collection of the British Museum |
| Borger Esarh. | R. Borger, Die Inschriften Asarhaddons, König von Assyrien. AfO Bh9 (Graz 1956) |
| Bu | tablets in the collection of the British Museum |
| CAD | Chicago Assyrian Dictionary |
| CANE | J.M. Sasson (ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (New York 1995) |
| CRRAI | Recontre assyriologique internationale, comptes rendus |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| Deller Lautlehre | K. Deller, Lautlehre des Neuassyrischen (Vienna 1959) |
| de Vaan Bel-ibni | J.M.C.T. de Vaan, Ich bin eine Schwertklinge des Königs (AOAT 242, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1995) |
| DT | tablets in the collection of the British Museum |
| Fales Cento Lettere | F.M. Fales, Cento lettere neo-assire (Venice 1983) |
| Fales and Lanfranchi Lettere | F.M. Fales and G.B. Lanfranchi, Lettere dalla corte assira (Venice 1992) |
| Festschrift Röllig | B. Pongratz-Leisten, H. Kühne and P. Xella (eds.), Ana šadî Labnāni lū allik. Festschrift für Wolfgang Röllig (AOAT 247, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1997) |
| Fetschrift Tadmor | M. Cogan and I. Eph'al (eds.), Ah, Assyria ... Studies in the Assyrian History and Ancient Near Eastern Historiography Presented to Hayim Tadmor, Scripta Hierosolymitana 33 (Jerusalem 1991) |
| Festschrift von Soden | M. Dietrich and O. Leretz (eds.), Vom Alten Orient zum Alten Testament, Festschrift für Wolfram Freiherrn von Soden (AOAT 240, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1995) |
| Frahm Sanherib | E. Frahm, Einleitung in die Sanherib-Inschriften, AfO Bh 26 (Vienna 1997) |
| Frame Babylonia | G. Frame, Babylonia 689-627 B.C. A Political History (Istanbul 1992) |
| GPA | J. N. Postgate,The Governor's Palace Archive (CTN 2, London 1973) |
| Greyson Chronicles | A.K. Grayson, Assyrian amd Babylonian Chronicles (Texts from Cuneiform Sources 5, Glückstadt 1975) |
| Hämeen-Anttila Grammar | J. Hämeen-Anttila, A Sketch of Neo-Assyrian Grammar (SAAS 13, Helsinki 2000) |
| HANEM | History of the Ancient Near East, Monographs (Padua) |
| Ivantchik Cimmériens | A.I. Ivantchik, Les Cimmériens au Proche-Orient (OBO 127, Fribourg 1993) |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| JESHO | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient |
| JSS | Journal of Semitic Studies |
| K | tablets in the collection of the British Museum |
| KAV | O. Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur verschiedenen Inhalts (Leipzig 1920) |
| Ki | tablets in the collection of the British Museum |
| Kuhrt ANE | A. Kuhrt, The Ancient Near East c. 3000-330 BC (London 1997) |
| Lanfranchi Cimmeri | G.B. Lanfranchi, I Cimmeri. Emergenza delle Elites militari iraniche nel Vicino Oriente (VIII-VII sec. a. C.) (Padua 1990) |
| LAS | S. Parpola, Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbinipal I, II (AOAT 5/1-2, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1970, 1983) |
| LAS II A | S. Parpola, Letters ..., Part II A: Introduction and Appendixes (Ph.D. diss., University of Helsinki, 1971) |
| Mattila Magnates | R. Mattila, The Kings's Magnates (SAAS 11, Helsinki 2000) |
| Melville Naqia/Zakutu | S.C. Melville, The Role of Naqia/Zakutu in Sargonid Politics (SAAS 9, Helsinki 1999) |
| NABU | Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires |
| ND | field numbers excavated at Nimrud |
| NL | H.W.F Saggs, The Nimrud Letters (Iraq 17 [1995], etc.) |
| Nissinen Prophecy | M. Nissinen, References to the Prophecy in Neo-Assyrian Sources (SAAS 7, Helsinki 1998) |
| OA | Oriens Antiquus |
| OBO | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis |
| OLZ | Orientalische Literaturzeitung |
| Oppenheim Letters | A.L. Oppenheim, Letters from Mesopotamia (Chicago 1967) |
| Or. | Orientalia Nova Series |
| Payne Smith | J. Payne Smith, A Compendious Syriac Dictionary (Oxford 1903) |
| PKTA | E. Ebeling, Parfümrezepte und kultische Texte aus Assur (Rome 1952) |
| PNA | K. Radner and H. Baker (eds.), The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Helsinki 1998-) |
| Porter Images | B.N. Porter, Images, Power, and Politics: Figurative Aspects of Esarhaddon's Babylonian Policy (Philadelphia 1993) |
| Postgate TCAE | J.N. Postgate, Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 3, Rome 1974) |
| RA | Revue d'assyriologie |
| RCAE | L. Waterman, Royal Correspondence of the Assryian Empire, I-IV (Ann Arbor 1930-36) |
| 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 |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| StAT | Studien zu den Assur-Texten |
| Streck Asb | M. Streck, Assurbinipal I-III (Vorderasiatische Bibiliothek 7, Leipzig 1916) |
| Tadmor Tigl | H. Tadmor, The Inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser III, King of Assyria (Jerusalem 1994) |
| TCL | Textes cunéiformes du Louvre |
| Th | tables in the collection of the British Museum |
| Watanabe adê | K. Watanabe, Die adê-Vereidigung anlässlich der Thronfolgeregelung Asarhaddons (BaM Bh 3, Berlin 1987) |
| WO | Die Welt des Orients |
| WZKM | Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlands |
W and Y in the critical apparatus (followed by page number) refer to collections in RCAE and S. Ylvisaker, Zur babylonischen und assyrischen Grammatik (Leipziger Semitische Studien 5/6, Leipzig 1912) respectively.
| Asb. | Assurbanipal |
| Esarh. | Esarhaddon |
| Sar. | Sargon |
| Tgl | Tiglath-Pileser |
| MB | Middle Babylonian |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| NB | Neo-Babylonian |
| OB | Old Babylonian |
| SB | Standard Babylonian |
| Syr. | Syriac |
| e. | edge |
| obv. | obverse |
| pl. | plate |
| r., rev. | reverse |
| col. | column |
| coll. | collated, collation |
| mng. | meaning |
| ms. | manuscript |
| unpub. | unpublished |
| var. | variant |
| ! | 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 |
| + | joined to |
| (+) | indirect join |
Mikko Luukko & Greta van Buylaere
Mikko Luukko & Greta van Buylaere, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon, SAA 16. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 2002; online contents: SAAo/SAA16 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2025 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa16/AbbreviationsandSymbols/]