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, "N" always means the Nippur collection unless stated otherwise.
A  Asiatic collection of the Oriental Institute, Chicago
AO  Collection of Antiquités Orientales of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
AOC  Assyrian Old Collections collection of the British Museum, London
Ash  Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Ass  Prefix of excavation numbers from the German excavations at Aššur
BE  Prefix of excavation numbers from the German excavations at Babylon
BM  British Museum, London
Bu  E.A.W. Budge collection of the British Museum, London
CBS  Babylonian Section of the University Museum, Philadelphia
DT  Daily Telegraph collection of the British Museum, London
EHE  Signature of objects in the collection of the École Pratique des Hautes Études, IVe Section, Paris
EŞ  Eşki Şark Eserleri Müzesi of the Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul
HS  Hilprecht collection of Babylonian Antiquities of Fr. Schiller Universität, Jena
HSM  Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
IAA  Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem
IM  Iraq Museum, Baghdad
K  Kuyunjik collection of the British Museum, London
MAH  Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva
MMA  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
N  1) Nippur collection of the University Museum, Philadelphia
  2) Layard collection of the British Museum, London
Ni  Nippur Collection, Istanbul
NT  Excavation numbers of inscribed objects from the American excavations at Nippur
NBC  James B. Nies collection of the Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven
ND  Prefix of excavation numbers from the British excavations at Nimrud
PA  Signature of Neo-Assyrian historical prisms from the collection of the late A.C. Piepkorn, now in the Asiatic collection of the Oriental Institute, Chicago
PMA  Philadelphia Museum of Art
PT  Excavation numbers for objects found on the Persepolis terrace by the Oriental Institute expedition
Rm  H. Rassam collection of the British Museum, London
Sm  G. Smith collection of the British Museum, London
SM  Sulaimaniya Museum, Sulaimaniya
Sp  Spartoli collection of the British Museum, London
UM  University Museum, Philadelphia
TM  Prefix of excavation numbers from the British excavations at Nineveh
VA  Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
VA Ass  Aššur collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
VA Bab  Babylonian collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
VAG  Casts in the collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
VAT  Tablets in the collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
W  Excavation numbers of the German excavations at Uruk (Warka)
YBC  Babylonian collection of the Yale University Library, New Haven

Erle Leichty

Erle Leichty, 'Object Signatures', RINAP 4: Esarhaddon, The RINAP 4 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap4/rinap4frontmatter/objectsignatures/]

 
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