| 79-7-8 etc. | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| A | tablets in the collections of Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| ALA | O. Pedersén, Archives and Libraries in the City of Assur I-II |
| AOAT | Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| ARET | Archivi Reali di Ebla, Testi |
| ARM | Archives royales de Mari |
| ASJ | Acta Sumerologica (Japan, Hiroshima) |
| AsT | B. Menzel, Assyrische Tempel, Band II (Rome 1981) |
| BA | Beiträge zur Assyriologie |
| Bab | Babyloniaca: Études de philologie assyro-babylonienne |
| BaM | Baghdader Mitteilungen |
| BBR | H. Zimmern, Beiträge zur Kenntnis der babylonischen Religion I, II |
| BiOr | Bibliotheca Orientalis |
| BM | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| CA | G. van Driel, The Cult of Aššur (Assen 1969) |
| CAD | Chicago Assyrian Dictionary |
| Cohen CL | M. Cohen, The Canonical Lamentations of Ancient Mesopotamia |
| Cohen Eršemma | M. Cohen, Sumerian Hymnology: The Eršemma |
| CRRAI | Rencontre assyriologique intemationale, comptes rendus |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| DS | field numbers of tablets excavated at Dur-Šarrukin |
| ETCSL | Electronic Text Corpus of the Sumerian Literature |
| Fs Borger | Stefan Maul (ed.), Festschrift für Rykle Borger (Groningen 1998) |
| Geers | copies of Kuyunjik tablets by F.W. Geers |
| GPA | J. N. Postgate, The Governor's Palace Archive (London 1973) |
| JCS | Journal of Cuneiform Studies |
| JNES | Journal of Near Eastern Studies |
| K | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| KAH | O. Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur historischen Inhalts |
| KAR | E. Ebeling, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur religiösen Inhalts |
| Ki | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| LachmanAV | Studies ... in Honor of E. R. Lachman (Winona Lake 1982) |
| LAS | S. Parpola, Letters from Assyrian Scholars I, II |
| Luckenbill Senn. | D. D. Luckenbill, The Annals of Sennacherib (OIP 2, Chicago 1924) |
| MARI | Mari. Annales des Recherches Interdisciplinaires |
| MARV | Mittelassyrische Rechts-und Verwaltungsurkunde |
| Menzel Tempel | B. Menzel, Assyrische Tempel I, II (Rome 1981) |
| MVA(e)G | Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatisch-Ägyptischen Gesellschaft |
| N.A.B.U. | Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires |
| ND | field numbers of tablets excavated at Nimrud |
| OIP | Oriental Institute Publications |
| Or | Orientalia, Nova Series |
| PKTA | E. Ebeling, Parfümrezepte und kultische Texte aus Assur (Rome 1952) |
| PNA | The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Helsinki 1998-) |
| R | H. C. Rawlinson, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia |
| RA | Revue d'assyriologie |
| RAcc. | F. Thureau-Dangin, Rituels accadiens (Paris 1921) |
| RCAE | L. Waterman, Royal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire, I-IV |
| RIAA | See Speleers Recueil |
| RIMA | Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Periods |
| RIME | Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Early Periods |
| Rm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| SAA | State Archives of Assyria |
| SAAB | State Archives of Assyria Bulletin |
| SAALT | State Archives of Assyria Literary Texts |
| SAAS | State Archives of Assyria Studies |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Speelers Recueil | L. Speleers, Recueil des inscriptions de l' Asie Antérieure ... à Bruxelles |
| STT | O.R. Gurney, J.J. Finkelstein and P. Hulin, The Sultantepe Tablets I-II |
| s.u. | field numbers of tablets excavated at Sultantepe |
| SVAT | E. Ebeling, Stiftungen und Vorschriften für assyrische Tempel |
| Takultu | R. Frankena, Tākultu. De sacrale maaltijd in bet assyrische ritueel |
| VAT | tablets in the collections of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin |
| vs | Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie |
| DN | divine name |
| GN | geographical name |
| MA | Middle Assyrian |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| NB | Neo-Babylonian |
| coll. | collated, collation |
| e. | edge |
| mng. | meaning |
| obv. | obverse |
| r., rev. | reverse |
| rdg. | reading |
| 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 |
| + | joined to |
| (+) | indirect join |
| → | see also |
| // | paralleled by; duplicated or composite text |
Simo Parpola
Simo Parpola, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts, SAA 20. Original publication: Winona Laka, IN, Eisenbrauns, 2017; online contents: SAAo/SAA20 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa20/SAA20AbbreviationsandSymbols/]