| AAA | Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology |
| ABC | J. H. Stevenson, Assyrian and Babylonian Contracts with Aramaic Reference Notes (New York 1902) |
| ABL | R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Letters (London and Chicago 1892-1914) |
| ABRT | J . A . Craig, Assyrian and Babylonian Religious Texts (Leipzig 1895) |
| ADD | C. H. W. Johns, Assyrian Deeds and Documents (Cambridge 1898- 1923) |
| AGS | J. A. Knudtzon, Assyrische Gebete an den Sonnengott (Leipzig 1893) |
| AJSL | American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures |
| AnSt | Anatolian Studies |
| AoF | Altorientalische Forschungen |
| AR | J. Kohler - A. Ungnad, Assyrische Rechtsurkunden (Leipzig 1913) |
| BM | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Bu | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Budge Deluge | E. A. W. Budge, The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh (London 1920) |
| CAD | Chicago Assyrian Dictionary |
| Cat. | C. Bezold, Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection I-V (London 1889-1899) |
| Cat. Suppl. | L. W. King, Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tahlets in the Kouyunjik Collection, Supplement (London 1914) |
| CIS | Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum |
| 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 |
| Ep. Ar. | L. Delaporte, Épigraphes araméens (Paris 1912) |
| Fales Censimenti | F. M. Fales, Censimenti e catasti di epoca neo-assira (Rome 1973) |
| Fales Epigraphs | F. M. Fales, Aramaic Epigraphs on Clay Tablets of the Neo-Assyrian Period (Rome 1986) |
| Festschrift Porada | M. Kelly-Buccellati (ed.), Insight Through images. Studies in Honor of Edith Porada (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 21, Malibu 1986) |
| Festschrift Reiner | F. Rochberg-Halton (ed.), Language, Literature, and History: Philological and Historical Studies Presented to Erica Reiner (American Oriental Series 67, New Haven 1987) |
| FNALD | J. N. Postgate, Fifty Neo-Assyrian Legal Documents (Warminster 1976) |
| GPA | J. N. Postgate, The Governor's Palace Archive (Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud 2, London 1973) |
| Grayson Chronicles | A. K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (Texts from Cuneiform Sources 5, Glückstadt 1975) |
| Hh | lexical series HAR.ra = hubullu |
| JCS | Journal of Cuneiform Studies |
| K | tablets in the Kuyunjik collection of the British Museum |
| KAV | O. Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur verschiedenen Inhalts, (Leipzig 1920) |
| KB | Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek |
| Ki | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| 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) |
| Luckenbill Senn. | D. D. Luckenbill, The Annals of Sennacherib (Oriental Institute Publications 2, Chicago 1924) |
| MSL | Materialien zum sumerischen Lexikon; Materials for the Sumenan Lexicon |
| N. | tablets in the collections of the Musée du Louvre |
| 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) |
| ND | field numbers of tablets excavated at Nimrud |
| Or. | Orientalia, Nova Series |
| Place Ninive | V. Place, Ninive et l'Assyrie I-III (Paris l867-1870) |
| R | H. C. Rawlinson, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia (London 1861-1884) |
| RlA | Reallexikon der Assyriologie |
| Rm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| SAA | State Archives of Assyria |
| SAAB | State Archives of Assyria Bulletin |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| TCAE | J. N. Postgate, Taxation and Conscription in the Assynan Empire (Studia Pohl. Series Maior 3, Rome 1974) |
| TCL | Textes cunéiformes du Louvre |
| Th | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| WZKM | Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes |
| Zadok West Semites | R. Zadok, On West Semites in Babylonian during the Chaldean and Achaemenid Periods. An Onomastic Study (Jerusalem 1977) |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| DN | divine name |
| GN | geographical name |
| PN | personal name |
| RN | royal name |
| Syr. | Syriac |
| e. | edge |
| obv. | obverse |
| r., rev. | reverse |
| rs. | right side |
| s. | (left) side |
| coll. | collated, collation |
| mng. | meaning |
| unpub. | unpublished |
| var. | variant |
| ! | collation |
| !! | emendation |
| ? | uncertain reading |
| : :. :: | cuneiform division marks |
| * | graphic variants (see LAS I p. XX) |
| 0 | uninscribed space or non existent 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 |
| + | joined to |
Simo Parpola
Simo Parpola, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon, SAA 6. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1991; online contents: SAAo/SAA06 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa06/saa6abbreviationsandsymbols/]