| ABL | R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Letters (London and Chicago 1892-1914) |
| ABRT | J . A . Craig, Assyrian and Babylonian Religious Texts (Leipzig 1895) |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| AHw | W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch |
| AJSL | American Journal of Semitic Languages |
| AMT | R. C. Thompson, Assyrian Medical Texts (London 1923) |
| AnSt | Anatolian Studies |
| AOAT | Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| AoF | Altorientalische Forschungen |
| ARINH | F.M. Fales (ed.), Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: New Horizons in Literary, Ideological and Historical Analysis (Orientis Antiqui Collectio XVIII, Rome 1981) |
| AS | Assyriological Studies |
| ATAT | H. Gressmann, Altorientalische Texte zum Alten Testament (Berlin and Leipzig 1926) |
| BA | Beiträge zur Assyriologie |
| Bauer Asb | Th. Bauer, Das Inschriftenwerk Assurbanipals (Leipzig 1933) |
| BM | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Bu | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| CAD | Chicago Assyrian Dictionary |
| CRRAI | Rencontre assyriologique internationale, comptes rendus |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| CTN | Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud |
| DT | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| EAK | W. Schramm, Einleitung in die assyrischen Königsinschriften II (Leiden 1973) |
| Ebeling TuL | E. Ebeling, Tod und Leben nach den Vorstellungen der Babylonier (Berlin and Leipzig 1931) |
| En el. | Enuma Eliš |
| Geers | copies of Kuyunjik tablets by F.W. Geers |
| GPA | J .N. Postgate, The Governor's Palace Archive (CTN 2, London 1973) |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Soceity |
| JCS | Journal of Cuneiform Studies |
| JKF | Jahrbuch für Kleinasiatische Forschung |
| JNES | Journal of Near Eastern Studies |
| JRAS | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |
| K | tablets in the Kuyunjik collection of the British Museum |
| KAH | 0. Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur historischen Inhalts, Zweites Heft (Leipzig 1922) |
| KAR | E. Ebeling, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur religiösen Inhalts (Leipzig 1919) |
| KB | Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek |
| Langdon Creation | S. Langdon, The Babylonian Epic of Creation (Oxford 1923) |
| LAS | S. Parpola, Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal I, II (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 5/1-2, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1970, 1983) |
| LKA | E. Ebeling and F. Köcher, Literarische Keilschrifttexte aus Assur (Berlin 1953) |
| MAOG | Mitteilungen der Altorientalischen Gesellschaft |
| MDOG | Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft |
| Menzel Tempel | B. Menzel, Assyrische Tempel (Studia Pohl: series maior 10/I-II, Rome 1981) |
| MEW | A. Livingstone, Mystical and Mythological Explanatory Works of Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (Oxford 1986) |
| MVAG | Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatisch-Ägyptischen Gesellschaft |
| NE | P. Haupt, Das babylonische Nimrodepos (Assyriologische Bibliothek 3, Leipzig 1891) |
| OECT | Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts |
| Or. | Orientalia, Nova Series |
| Piepkorn Asb | A. C. Piepkorn, Historical Prism Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (Assyriological Studies 5, Chicago 1933) |
| RA | Revue d'assyriologie |
| RlA | Reallexikon der Assyriologie |
| Rm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| SAA | State Archives of Assyria |
| SAAB | State Archives of Assyria Bulletin |
| SAHG | A. Falkenstein and W. von Soden, Sumerische und akkadische Hymnen und Gebete (Zürich-Stuttgart 1953) |
| Seux Epithètes | M.-J. Seux, Epithètes royales akkadiennes et sumériennes (Paris 1967) |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Streck Asb | M. Streck, Assurbanipal I-III (Vorderasiatische Bibliothek 7, Leipzig 1916) |
| STT | The Sultantepe Tablets |
| TBWW | Th. Pinches, Texts in the Babylonian wedge-writing, ... Part I: Texts in the Assyrian language only, from the Royal Library at Nineveh (London 188 ) |
| TIM | Texts in the Iraq Museum |
| TRAB | F. Martin, Textes religieux assyriens et babyloniens, première série (Paris 1903) |
| VAT | tablets in the collections of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie |
| ZDMG | Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |
| Zimmern Neujahrfest | H. Zimmern, Zum babylonischen Neujahrsfest, Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, philologisch-historische Klasse 58/3 (= I, Leipzig 1906); 70/5 (= II, Leipzig 1918) |
| adv. | adverb |
| Aram. | Aramaic, Aramean |
| Babyl. | Babylonian |
| LB | Late Babylonian |
| MA | Middle Assyrian |
| MB | Middle Babylonian |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| NB | Neo-Babylonian |
| OA | Old Assyrian |
| Oakk | Old Akkadian |
| OB | Old Babylonian |
| SB | Standard Babylonian |
| e. | edge |
| obv. | obverse |
| r., rev. | reverse |
| s. | (left) side |
| coll. | collated, collation |
| frg. | fragment |
| MS | manuscript |
| unpub. | unpublished |
| var. | variant |
| ! | collation |
| !! | emendation |
| ? | uncertain reading |
| : :. :: | cuneiform division marks |
| * | graphic variants (see LAS I p. XX) |
| 0 | uninscribed space o r nonexistent sign |
| x | broken or undeciphered sign |
| ( ) | supplied word or sign |
| (( )) | sign erroneously added by scribe |
| [[ ]] | erasure |
| [...] | minor break (one or two missing words) |
| [......] | major break |
| ... | untranslatable word |
| ...... | untranslatable passage |
| → | see also |
| / | (in score transliteration) line boundary |
| + | joined to, (in score transliteration) continuing line |
Alasdair Livingstone
Alasdair Livingstone, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea, SAA 3. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1989; online contents: SAAo/SAA03 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa03/saa3abbreviationsandsymbols/]