| A | Assur (tablets in the collections of the Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri) |
| ABL | R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Letters I-XXIV (London and Chicago 1892-1914) |
| ADD | C.H.W. Johns, Assyrian Deeds and Documents I-IV (Cambridge 1898-1923) |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| AHw. | W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch I-III (Wiesbaden 1959- 81) |
| AJSL | American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures |
| ANE | Department of the Ancient Near East of the British Museum |
| AnOr | Analecta Orientalia |
| AOAT | Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| Armold Uruk | B.T. Arnold, Babylonian Letters from the Kuyunjik Collection: Seventh Century Uruk in Light of New Epistolary Evidence (PhD, Hebrew Union College 1985) |
| Assyria 1995 | S. Parpola and R.M. Whiting (eds.), Assyria 1995. Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary Symposium of the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project (Helsinki 1997) |
| BA | Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft |
| BaM Bh | Baghdader Mitteilungen, Beihefte |
| BATSH | Berichte der Ausgrabung Tall Šeḫ Ḥamad/Dur-Katlimmu |
| BBEA | B. Landsberger, Brief des Bischofs von Esagila an König Asarhaddon (Amsterdam 1965) |
| BiOr | Bibliotheca Orientalis |
| BM | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| BMS | L.W. King, Babylonian Magic and Sorcery (London 1896) |
| Bongenaar Ebabbar | A.C.V.M. Bongenaar, The Neo-Babylonian Ebabbar Temple at Sippar: Its Administration and its Prosopography (Istanbul 1997) |
| Borger Esarh. | R. Borger, Die lnschriften Asarhaddons, Königs von Assyrien (AfO Beiheft 9, Graz 1956) |
| Brinkman Prelude | J.A. Brinkman, Prelude to Empire: Babylonian Society and Politics, 747-626 B.C. (Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund 7, Philadelphia 19) |
| Bu | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| BWL | W.G. Lambert, Babylonian Wisdom Literature (Oxford 1960) |
| CAD | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Chicago and Glückstadt 1956-) |
| CRRAI | Rencontre assyriologique internationale, comptes rendus |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum (London 1896-) |
| Delitzsch AL | F. Delitzsch, Assyrische Lesestücke mit den Elementen der Grammatik und vollständigem Glossar (Assyriologische Bibliothek 16 Leipzig 1912) |
| de Vaan Bel-ibni | J.M.C .T. de Vaan, "Ich bin eine Schwertklinge des Königs": Die Sprache des Bel-ibni (AOAT 242, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1995) |
| DT | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Eph'al Arbs | I. Eph'al, The Ancient Arabs: Nomads on the Borders of the Fertile Crescent, 9th-5th Centuries B.C. (Jerusalem and Leiden 1982) |
| Festschrift Borger | S. Maul (ed.), Festschrift für Rykle Borger (Cuneiform Monographs 10, Groningen 1998) |
| Festschrift Sjöberg | H. Behrens, D. Loding, and M.T. Roth (eds.), DUMU-E₂-DUB-BA-A. Studies in Honor of Å. W. Sjöberg (Philadelphia 1989) |
| Foster Before the Muses | B.R. Foster, Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature I-II (Bethesda 1996) |
| Frame Babylonia | G. Frame, Babylonia 689-627 B.C.: A Political History (Leiden 1992) |
| George BTT | A.R. George, Babylonian Topographical Texts (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 40, Leuven 1992) |
| George House | A.R. George, House Most High: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia (Mesopotamian Civilizations 5, Winona Lake 1993) |
| Horowitz Geography | W. Horowitz, Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography (Mesopotamian Civilizations 8, Winona Lake 1998) |
| JCS | Journal of Cuneiform Studies |
| K | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Ki | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| King Cat. Spl. | L.W. King, Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection, Supplement (London 1914) |
| 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) |
| Lehmann Ššk. | C .F. Lehmann, Šamaššumukin, König von Babylonien 668-648 v. Chr. (Assyriologische Bibliothek 8, Leipzig 1892) |
| LSS | Leipziger Semitische Studien |
| NABU | Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires |
| Oppenheim LFM | A.L. Oppenheim, Letters from Mesopotamia (Chicago and London 1967) |
| Or. | Orientalia, Nova Series |
| Payne Smith | J. Payne Smith, A Compendious Syriac Dictionary (Oxford 1903) |
| Pfeiffer State Letters | R.H. Pfeiffer, State Letters of Assyria (American Oriental Series 6, New Haven 1935) |
| PKB | J.A. Brinkman, A Political History of Post-Kassite Babylonia 1158-722 B.C. (AnOr 43, Rome 1968) |
| PNA | H.D. Baker and K. Radner (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) |
| R | H.C. Rawlinson, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia (London 1861-84) |
| RGTC | Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes (Wiesbaden) |
| RlA | Reallexikon der Assyriologie (Berlin, Leipzig, and New York 1932-) |
| 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 von Keilschrifttexten I-III (Leipzig 1893-95) |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Smith Assurbanipal | G. Smith , History of Assurbanipal ( London 1871) |
| Smith Keilschrifttexte | S.A. Smith, Die Keilschrifttexte Asurbanipals, Königs von Assyrien (668-626 v. Chr.) I-III (Leipzig 1887-89) |
| St Pohl SM | Studia Pohl, Series Maior |
| Th | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Ungnad Syr. Gramm. | A. Ungnad, Syrische Grammatik mit Übungsbuch (München 1913) |
| WO | Die Welt des Orients |
| Woodington Grammar | N.R. Woodington, A Grammar of the Neo-Babylonian Letters of the Kuyunjik Collection (PhD, Yale University 1982) |
| Wunsch Egibi | C . Wunsch, Das Egibi-Archiv I-II (Cuneiform Monographs 20, Groningen 2000) |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie |
Y in the critical apparatus (followed by page number) refers to collations in S. Ylvisaker, Zur babylonischen und assyrischen Grammatik (LSS 5/6, Leipzig 1912). The sources of individual collations and/or additions to the critical apparatus are indicated by the initials of the author's name (GF = Grant Frame, ILF = Irving L. Finkel, SP = Simo Parpola, FR = Frances Reynolds, RMW = Robert Whiting, CBFW = Christopher Walker).
| Aram. | Aramaic, Aramean |
| Bibl. | biblical |
| coll. | collated, collation |
| DN | divine name |
| dupl. | duplicate |
| e. | edge |
| f. | female, feminine |
| GN | geographic name |
| LB | Late Babylonian |
| m. | masculine |
| mng. | meaning |
| mod. | modern |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| NB | Neo-Babylonian |
| obv. | obverse |
| pl. | plural |
| PN | personal name |
| r., rev. | reverse |
| rs. | right side |
| s. | (left) side |
| sg. | singular |
| s.v. | sub voce |
| Syr. | Syriac |
| 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 |
Frances Reynolds
Frances Reynolds, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', The Babylonian Correspondence of Esarhaddon and Letters to Assurbanipal and Sin-šarru-iškun from Northern and Central Babylonia, SAA 18. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 2003; online contents: SAAo/SAA18 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa18/SAA18AbbreviationsandSymbols/]