Object Signatures

When the same signature is used for more than one group, the first group in this list is meant unless otherwise indicated. For example, "A" always means the Asiatic collection of the Oriental Institute unless stated otherwise.

A	1) Asiatic collection of the Oriental Institute, Chicago
	2) Aššur collection of the Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul
AM	Prefix for excavation numbers at Tell Amarna, Syria
AnAr	Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi, Ankara
AO	Collection of Antiquités Orientales of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
Ash	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Ass	Prefix for excavation numbers from the German excavations at Aššur
BCM	The City of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
BE	Prefix for excavation numbers from the German excavations at Babylon
BLMJ	Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem
BM	British Museum, London
D	Prefix for excavation/registration number from the American excavations at Samaria
DŠ	Prefix for excavations numbers from the Oriental Institute (Chicago) excavations at Dūr-Šarrukīn (Khorsabad)
DT	Daily Telegraph collection of the British Museum, London
Erm	Hermitage, St. Petersburg
EŞ	Eşki Şark Eserleri Müzesi of the Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul
FMB	Bodmer Museum, Cologny
IAA	Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem
IM	Iraq Museum, Baghdad
K	Kuyunjik collection of the British Museum, London
KH	Prefix for excavation numbers from the Italian excavations at Carchemish
LB	F.M.Th. de Liagre Böhl Collection, Leiden
M	National Museum, Aleppo
MAH	Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva
MMA	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MS	Martin Schøyen collection, Oslo
N	1) collection number of the Louvre, Paris
	2) Layard collection of the British Museum, London
Nap. III	Napoleon III; collection number of the Louvre, Paris
ND	Prefix for excavation numbers from the British excavations at Nimrud
P	Museo delle Antichità Egizie, Turin
PT	Prefix for excavation numbers for objects found on the Persepolis terrace by the Oriental Institute expedition
Rm	H. Rassam collection of the British Museum, London
ROM	Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Sm	G. Smith collection of the British Museum, London
T	Prefix for excavation number from the American excavations at Tell Tayinat
UM	University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
VA	Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
VA Ass	Aššur collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
VAT	1) Tablets in the collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
	2) Prefix for objects in the Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Rome
W	Prefix for excavations numbers from the German excavations at Uruk/Warka
YBC	Babylonian Collection of the Yale University Library, New Haven

Grant Frame

Grant Frame, 'Object Signatures', RINAP 2: Sargon II, Sargon II, The RINAP 2 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2021 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap2/rinap2frontmatter/objectsignatures/]

The RINAP 2 sub-project of the University of Pennsylvania-based RINAP Project, 2020-. The contents of RINAP 2 were prepared by Grant Frame for the University-of-Pennsylvania-based and National-Endowment-for-the-Humanities-funded Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, with the assistance of Joshua Jeffers and the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), which is based at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Historisches Seminar (LMU Munich, History Department) - Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East. Content released under a CC BY-SA 3.0 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/] license, 2007-21.
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