Bibliographical Abbreviations

AAA   Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology. Liverpool, 1908–48
AfK   Archiv für Keilschriftforschung, vols. 1–2. Berlin, 1923–25
AfO   Archiv für Orientforschung, vol. 3– (vols. 1–2 = AfK). Berlin, Graz, and Horn, 1926–
Ahmed, Southern Mesopotamia   S.S. Ahmed, Southern Mesopotamia in the Time of Ashurbanipal. Paris, 1968
AHw   W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, 3 vols. Wiesbaden, 1965–81
Akkadica   Akkadica. Brussels, 1977–
Amiet, Kunst   P. Amiet, Die Kunst des alten Orient. Freiburg and Vienna, 1977
André-Leicknam, Naissance de l'écriture   B. André-Leicknam, Naissance de l'écriture: cunéiformes et hiéroglyphes. Paris, 1982
ANET3   J.B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd edition. Princeton, 1969
AOAT   Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Neukirchen-Vluyn, Kevelaer, and Münster, 1968–
Arch.   Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity. London, 1770–1992
Arnaud, Assurbanipal   D. Arnaud, Assurbanipal Roi d'Assyrie. Paris, 2007
Art History   Art History: Journal of the Association for Art History. London, 1978–
Aynard, Prisme   J.-M. Aynard, Le prisme du Louvre AO 19.939. Paris, 1957
Bagh. Mitt.   Baghdader Mitteilungen. Berlin, 1960–
Barnett, Sculptures from the North Palace   R.D. Barnett, Sculptures from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (668–627 B.C.). London, 1976
Barnett and Lorenzini, Assyrian Sculpture   R.D. Barnett and A. Lorenzini, Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum. Toronto, 1975
Barnett et al., Sculptures from the Southwest Palace   R.D. Barnett, E. Bleibtreu, and G. Turner, Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh, 2 vols. London, 1998
Bauer, Asb.   T. Bauer, Das Inschriftenwerk Assurbanipals (=Assyriologische Bibliothek, Neue Folge 1–2). Leipzig, 1933
Belleten   Türk Tarih Kurumu, Belleten. Ankara, 1937–
Bezold, Cat.   C. Bezold, Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum, 5 vols. London, 1889–1899
BiOr   Bibliotheca Orientalis. Leiden, 1943–
BM Guide   British Museum. A Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities, 3rd edition. London, 1922
BMQ   British Museum Quarterly. London, 1926–73
Böhl, Chrestomathy 1   F.M.T. Böhl, Akkadian Chrestomathy, Volume 1: Selected Cuneiform Texts. Leiden, 1947
Böhl, MLVS   F.M.T. Böhl, Mededeelingen uit de Leidsche verzameling van spijkerschrift-inscripties, 3 vols. Amsterdam, 1933–36
Borger, Asarh.   R. Borger, Die Inschriften Asarhaddons, Königs von Assyrien (=AfO Beiheft 9). Graz, 1956
Borger, BAL2   R. Borger, Babylonisch-assyrische Lesestücke, 2nd edition, 2 vols (=AnOr 54). Rome, 1979
Borger, BIWA   R. Borger, Beiträge zum Inschriftenwerk Assurbanipals: Die Prismenklassen A, B, C = K, D, E, F, G, H, J und T sowie andere Inschriften. Wiesbaden, 1996
Borger, HKL   R. Borger, Handbuch der Keilschriftliteratur, 3 vols. Berlin, 1967–75
Borger, MZ   R. Borger, Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon (=AOAT 305). Münster, 2004
Botta, Monument de Ninive   P.E. Botta, Monument de Ninive, 5 vols. Paris, 1849–50; new impression, Osnabrück, 1972
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Butler, Dreams   S. Butler, Mesopotamian Conceptions of Dreams and Dream Rituals (=AOAT 258). Münster, 1998
CAD   The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 21 vols. Chicago, 1956–2011
CAH2 3/2   J. Boardman et al. (eds.), The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd edition, vol. 3, part 2: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C. Cambridge, 1991
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