Abbreviations

Bibliographical Abbreviations

AAA	Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology
AAT	J. A. Craig, Astrological-astronomical Texts (Leipzig 1899)
ABK	H. Hunger, Babylonische und assyrische Kolophone (AOAT 2, Neukirchen- Vluyn 1968)
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
AfO Beiheft 6	see TH
AGS	J. A. Knudtzon, Assyrische Gebete an den Sonnengott (Leipzig 1893)
AKA	E. A. W. Budge and L. W. King, The Annals of the Kings of Assyria (London 1902)
ALA	O. Pedersén, Archives and Libraries in the City of Assur I-II (Uppsala 1985-86)
AnSt	Anatolian Studies
AOAT	Alter Orient und Altes Testament
ARAB	D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia I-II (Chicago 1926-27)
ArEp	F. M. Fales, Aramaic Epigraphs on Clay Tablets of the Neo-Assyrian Period (Rome 1986)
ARU	J. Kohler and A. Ungnad, Assyrische Rechtsurkunden (Leipzig 1913)
AS	Assyriological Studies
AS 5	A. C. Piepkorn, Historical Prism Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (AS 5, Chicago 1933)
Assur	Assur, Monographic Journals of the Near East
Aynard, Le Prisme	J.-M. Aynard, Le Prisme du Louvre AO 19.939 (Paris 1957)
Balawat Gates	A. Billerbeck and F. Delitzsch, Beiträge zur Assyriologie 6,1 (1908) 133-44
BaM	Baghdader Mitteilungen
BBR	H. Zimmern, Beiträge zur Kenntnis der babylonischen Religion I (Leipzig 1896), II (Leipzig 1901)
BiOr	Bibliotheca Orientalis
Böhl, Chrestomathy	F. M. T. Böhl, Akkadian Chrestomathy (Leiden 1947)
CAD	The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Chicago 1956-)
Carchemish II	C. L. Woolley, Carchemish, Part II. The Town Defences (London 1921)
CAH	Cambridge Ancient History
Cat. Supp.	L. W. King, Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection, Supplement (London 1914)
CCEN	F. M. Fales, Censimenti e catasti di epoca neo-assira (Rome 1973)
CIS	Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum
CT	Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum
CTDS	S. Parpola, Cuneiform Texts from Dur Sharrukin (unpublished)
CTN	Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud
CTNMC	Th. Jacobsen, Cuneiform Texts in the National Museum, Copenhagen (Leiden 1939)
Deller, Volterra FS	Studi in Onore di Edoardo Volterra VI (Milan 1971) 639-653
Dietrich, AOAT 7	Die Aramäer Südbabyloniens in der Sargonidenzeit (AOAT 7, Neukirchen- Vluyn 1970)
van Driel, Cult	G. van Driel, The Cult of Aššur (Assen 1969)
EAK	W. Schramm, Einleitung in die assyrischen Königsinschriften II (Leiden 1973)
EPHE	J.-M. Durand, Documents cuniformes de la IV^e Section de l'École pratique des Hautes Études. Tome I. Catalogue et copies cunéiformes (Hautes Études Orientales 18, Geneva — Paris 1982)
FuB	Forschungen und Berichte
Garelli FS	D. Charpin and F. Joannès (eds.), Marchands, diplomates et empereurs: Études sur la civilisation mésopotamienne offerts à Paul Garelli (Éditions Recherche sur Jes Civilisations, Paris 1991)
Genge, Stelen	H. Genge, Stelen neuassyrischen Könige (Thesis, Freiburg im Breisgau 1965)
Gezer	R. A. S. Macalister, The Excavations of Gezer I (London 1912) 23-29
GPA	J. N. Postgate, The Governor's Palace Archive (CTN 2, London 1973)
Hilprecht FS	Hilprecht Anniversary Volume (Leipzig 1909)
ICC	A. H. Layard, Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character from Assyrian Monuments (London 1851)
IWA	Th. Bauer, Das lnschriftenwerk Assurbanipals (Leipzig 1933)
JAOS	Journal of the American Oriental Society
JCS	Journal of Cuneiform Studies
JNES	Journal of Near Eastern Studies
JSS	Journal of Semitic Studies
KAH I	L. Messerschmidt, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur historischen Inhalts I (WVDOG 16, Leipzig 1911)
KAH II	O. Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur historischen Inhalts II (WVDOG 37, Leipzig 1922)
KAJ	E. Ebeling, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur juridischen Inhalts (WVDOG 50, Leipzig 1927)
KAR	E. Ebeling, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur religiösen Inhalts I (WVDOG 28, Leipzig 1919), II (WVDOG 34, Leipzig 1923)
KAV	O. Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur verschiedenen lnhalts (WVDOG 35, Leipzig 1920)
King, Cat.	see Cat. Supp.
LAS	S. Parpola, Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal I (AOAT 5/1, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1970)
LKA	E. Ebeling and F. Köcher, Literarische Keilschrifttexte aus Assur (Berlin 1953)
LTBA	L. Matouš, Die lexicalischen Tafelserien der Babylonier und Assyrer in den Berliner Museen I (Berlin 1933)
MARI	Mari, Annales de Recherches Interdisciplinaires
MDOG	Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft
Menzel, AT	B. Menzel, Assyrische Tempel (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 10, Rome 1981)
MVAG	Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatisch-Ägyptischen Gesellschaft
NABU	Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves 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-Assyrian Royal Grants and Decrees (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 1, Rome 1969)
NTT	D. J. Wiseman and J. A. Black, The Nabû Temple Texts (CTN 4, London forthcoming)
NWL	J. V. Kinnier Wilson, The Nimrud Wine Lists (CTN 1, London 1972)
OLZ	Orientalistische Literaturzeitung
Or.	Orientalia, Nova Series
OrSu	Orientalia Suecana
PEA	R. Campbell Thompson, The Prisms of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal found at Nineveh (London 1931)
PRT	E. Klauber, Politisch-Religiöse Texte aus der Sargonidenzeit (Leipzig 1913)
PSBA	Proceedings of the Society for Biblical Archaeology
III R	H. C. Rawlinson and G. Smith, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia III (London 1870)
RA	Revue d'Assyriologie
RCAE	L. Waterman, Royal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire I-IV (Ann Arbor 1930-36)
RIMS	Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Supplements
RIMS 1	V. Donbaz and A. K. Grayson, Royal Inscriptions on Clay Cones from Ashur now in Istanbul (RIMS 1, Toronto 1984)
RIMAP	Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Periods
RIMAP 2	A. K. Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC) (RIMAP 2, Toronto 1991)
RIA	Reallexikon der Assyriologie
RMA	R. Campbell Thompson, The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon I-II (London 1900)
RT	Recueil de Travaux
SAA	State Archives of Assyria
SAAB	State Archives of Assyria Bulletin
Sendschirli V	H. Ehelolf in W. Andrae and F. von Luschan, Die Kleinfunde von Sendschirli (Berlin 1943) 136-37, Taf. 73
Smith, Canon	G. Smith, The Assyrian Eponym Canon (London 1875)
St.	W. Andrae, Die Stelenreihen in Assur (WVDOG 24, Leipzig 1913)
Streck, Asb	M. Streck, Assurbanipal und die letzten assyrischen Könige I-III (Vorderasiatische Bibliothek 7, Leipzig 1916)
STT	O. R. Gurney and J. J. Finkelstein, The Sultantepe Tablets I (London 1957); O. R. Gurney and P. Hulin, The Sultantepe Tablets II (London 1964)
Tax.	J. N. Postgate, Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 3, Rome 1974)
TCL	Textes cunéiformes du Louvre
TFS	S. M. Dalley and J. N. Postgate, The Tablets from Fort Shalmaneser (CTN 3, London 1984)
TH	J. Friedrich, G. R. Meyer, A. Ungnad, E. F. Weidner, Die Inschriften von Tell Halaf (AfO Beiheft 6, Berlin 1940)
XXV Or. Cong.	Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Congress of Orientalists, Moscow, 1960 I (Moscow 1962)
Unger, IAMN	E. Unger, Sargon II. von Assyrien der Sohn Tiglatpileser's III. (Istanbul Asanatika Müzlerineşriyati 9, Istanbul 1933)
VS	Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler der Königlichen Museen zu Berlin
WdO	Die Welt des Orients
Winnett FS	J. W. Wevers and D. B. Redford (eds.), Studies on the Ancient Palestinian World presented to Professor F. V. Winnett (Toronto 1972)
WVDOG	Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft
ZA	Zeitschrift für Assyriologie
ZK	Zeitschrift für Keilschriftforschung

Museum and Excavation Signatures

A	The Oriental Institute, Chicago; also texts from Assur in the Archaeological Museum, Istanbul
AO	Musée du Louvre, Paris
Amherst	text in the collection Lord Amherst of Hackney; now dispersed
Ash	The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Assur	texts excavated by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft at Assur; some courtesy Liane Jakob-Rost and K. Deller or O. Pedersén
'Assur'	texts excavated at Assur by the Department of Antiquities of Iraq, courtesy A. Y. Ahmed and D. J. Wiseman
Bi	texts excavated at Tell Billa by the Baghdad School of the American Schools of Oriental Research and the University of Pennsylvania
BM	The British Museum, London
BT	texts excavated at Balawat by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; some by courtesy of the late B. H. Parker (Lady Mallowan) and J. N. Postgate
Bu	texts acquired by E. A. W. Budge for the British Museum
C	Borowski Collection, Lands of the Bible Museum, Jerusalem, courtesy W. G. Lambert
DK	texts excavated by the Department of Antiquities of Iraq at Dur Kurigalzu, courtesy J. A. Brinkman
DS	texts excavated at Khorsabad by the Oriental Institute, Chicago, courtesy S. Parpola and J. A. Brinkman
DT	'Daily Telegraph' Collection from Nineveh, The British Museum
Göteborg Univ.	Klassiska Institutionen collection, courtesy C. B. F. Walker
IM	Iraq Museum, Baghdad
K	texts from Kouyunjik (Nineveh) in the British Museum
Kh	texts from Khorsabad
Ki	texts from L. W. King's excavations at Nineveh, now in the British Museum
LB	de Liagre Böhl Collection, Leiden
MAH	Musée d' Art et d'Histoire, Geneva
NIII	text found at Khorsabad now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris
ND	texts excavated at Nimrud by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; some courtesy J. N. Postgate; tablets found by the Department of Antiquities of Iraq at Nimrud bear the same signature
O	Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (Cinquantenaire), Brussels; some courtesy E. Lipiński
P	tablet formerly in the collection of F. E. Peiser, now in the Böhl Collection
Rassam	texts formerly in the collection of H. Rassam, now in the British Museum
Rm	texts acquired by H. Rassam for the British Museum
S	tablets excavated at Sinjirli by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft
Sm	tablets acquired by G. Smith for the British Museum
SU	tablets excavated at Sultantepe by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
Th	texts from R. Campbell Thompson's excavations at Nineveh, now in the British Museum
TR	texts excavated at Tell al-Rimah by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq
UM	The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
VA, VAT	texts in the Vorderasiatische Abteilung, Staatliche Museen, Berlin; some courtesy K. Deller
VA Ass	texts from Assur in the Vorderasiatische Abteilung, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
82-5-22,121	etc. are collection numbers (year, month, day of accession, item no.) of tablets in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum

Abbreviations and English Equivalents of Royal Names

Ad	Aššur-dān
Adn	Adad-nērārī
Asb	Aššur-bāni-apli	Aššurbanipal
Asn	Aššur-naṣir-apli	Aššurnaṣirpal
Ašn	Aššur-nērārī
Esar	Aššur-aḫu-iddina	Esarhaddon
Senn	Sîn-aḫḫē-erība	Sennacherib
Sg	Šarru-kēn	Sargon
Shalm, Š	Šulmānu-ašarēd	Shalmaneser
Ssi	Sîn-šarru-iškun
Š-A	Šamšī-Adad
Tn	Tukultī-Ninurta
T-P	Tukultī-apil-Ešarra	Tiglath-pileser

Other Abbreviations and Symbols

e.	edge
exp.	expedition
GN	geographical name
ms	manuscript
nergal₃	IGI.DU
nergal₄	MAŠ.MAŠ
nergal₅	ŠEŠ.GAL
obv.	obverse
PC	post-canonical
PN	personal name
r., rev.	reverse
s.	(left) side
un.	unnumbered
+	join
(+)	indirect join

Except as noted above, index numbers of transcribed signs follow the conventions of R. Borger, Assyrisch-babylonische Zeichenliste (AOAT 33, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1978).

For the abbreviations used for the post-canonicial and extra-canonical eponyms, see p. 128.

Alan Millard

Alan Millard, 'Abbreviations', The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire 910-612 BC, SAAS 2. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1994; online contents: SAAo/SAAS2 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.org/saao/saas2/SAAS2Abbreviations/]