| 79-7-8 etc. | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| ABL | R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Letters (London and Chicago 1892-1914) |
| ADD | C. H. W. Johns, Assyrian Deeds and Documents (Cambridge 1898-1923) |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| AHw. | W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch |
| Ann. | The Annals of Sargon II from Khorsabad (Fuchs Sar. pp. 82-188 and 313-342) |
| AnOr | Analecta Orientalia |
| AOAT | Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| ARINH | F. M. Fales (ed.), Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: New Horizons in Literary, Ideological and Historical Analysis (Orientis Antiqui Collectio XVIII, Rome 1981) |
| BAL | R. Borger, Babylonisch-assyrische Lesestücke I-II (AnOr 54, 2nd ed. Rome 1994) |
| BIWA | R. Borger, Beitrage zum lnschriftenwerk Assurbanipals. Die Prismenklassen A, B, C ... , mit einem Beitrag von Andreas Fuchs (Wiesbaden 1996) |
| BM | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Borger Esarh. | R. Borger, Die Inschriften Esarhaddons, Königs von Assyrien (AfO Beiheft 9, Graz 1956) |
| Brinkman Prelude | J. A. Brinkman, Prelude to Empire (Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund 7, Philadelphia 1984) |
| Brinkman PKB | J. A. Brinkman, A Political History of Post-Kassite Babylonia 1158-722 B. C. (AnOr 43, Rome 1968) |
| CAD | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| DT | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Festschrift Hrouda | P. Calmeyer, K. Hecker, L. Jakob-Rost and C. B. F. Walker (eds.), Festschrift für Barthel Hrouda zum 65. Geburtstag (Wiesbaden 1994) |
| Festschrift Röllig | B. Pongratz-Leisten, Hartmut Kühne and Paolo Xella (eds.), Ana šadî Labnāni lū allik. Festschrift für Wolfgang Röllig (Neukirchen-Vluyn 1997) |
| FNALD | J. N. Postgate, Fifty Neo-Assyrian Legal Documents (Warminster 1976) |
| Frahm Sanherib | E. Frahm, Einleitung in die Sanherib-Inschriften (AfO Beih. 26, Wien 1997) |
| Frame Babylonia | G. Frame, Babylonia 689-627 B.C. A Political History (Istanbul 1992) |
| Fuchs Sar. | A. Fuchs, Die Inschriften Sargons II. aus Khorsabad (Gottingen 1994) |
| Grayson Chronicles | A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (Texts from Cuneiform Sources 5, Glückstadt 1975) |
| JCS | Journal of Cuneiform Studies |
| K | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| 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 I 970, 1983) |
| Levine Stelae | L. D. Levine, Two Neo-Assyrian Stelae from Iran (Toronto 1972) |
| Luckenbill Senn. | D. D. Luckenbill, The Annals of Sennacherib (Oriental Institute Publications 2, Chicago 1924) |
| Millard Eponyms | A. R. Millars, The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire 910-612 BC (SAAS 2, Hellsinki 1994) |
| NABU | Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires |
| ND | field numbers of tablets excavated at Nimrud |
| NL | H. W. F. Saggs, "The Nimrud Letters," Iraq 17 (1955), 21ff, etc. |
| Or. | Orientalia, Nova Series |
| PNA | K. Radner et al. (eds.), The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Helsinki 1998) |
| Prunk | The Display-inscription ("Große Prunkinschrift") of Sargon II from Khorsabad (Fuchs Sar. pp. 189-248 and 343-355) |
| RA | Revue d'assyriologie |
| RCAE | L. Waterman, Royal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire, III-IV (Ann Arbor 1930-1936) |
| RGTC | Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéformes |
| RIMA | Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Assyrian Periods |
| RlA | Reallexikon der Assyriologie |
| Rm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| SAA | State Archives of Assyria |
| SAAB | State Archives of Assyria Bulletin |
| SAAS | State Archives of Assyria Studies |
| SAAS 8 | A. Fuchs, Die Annalen des Jahres 711 v.Chr. (SAAS 8, Helsinki |
| Sm | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Stela II | The stela of Sargon II from Najafehabad, column II, in L. D. Levine, Two Neo-Assyrian Stelae from Iran (Toronto 1972), p. 34-45. |
| StOr | Studia Orientalia |
| Streck Asb | M. Strecki, Ashurbanipal I-III (Vorderasiatische Bibliothek 7, Leipzig 1916) |
| Tadmor Tigl. | H. Tadmor, The Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III, King of Assyria (Jerusalem 1994) |
| TCAE | J. N. Postgate, Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 3, Rome 1974) |
| TCL 3 | F. Thureau-Dangin, Une relation de la huitième campagne de Sargon (Textes cunéiformes du Louvre 3, Paris 1912) |
| TCS | Texts from Cuneiform Sources |
| Th | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| VAB | Vorderasiatische Bibliothek (Leipzig) |
| WO | Die Welt des Orients |
W and Y in the critical apparatus (followed by page number) refer to collations in RCAE and S. Ylvisaker, Zur babylonischen und assyrischen Grammatik (Leipziger Semitische Studien 5/6, Leipzig 1912) respectively.
| Am | Amarna |
| Arab. | Arabic |
| Aram. | Aramaic, Aramean |
| Asb. | Assurbanipal |
| Ass. | Assyrian, Assur |
| Bab. | Babylonian, Babylon |
| Bibl. | biblical |
| class. | classical |
| coll. | collated, collation |
| e. | edge |
| Esarh. | Esarhaddon |
| f. | female, feminine |
| imp. | imperative |
| MA | Middle Assyrian |
| mng. | meaning |
| mod. | modern |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| NB | Neo-Babylonian |
| obv. | obverse |
| pret. | preterit |
| pf. | perfect |
| pl. | plural |
| r., rev. | reverse |
| rs. | right side |
| s. | (left) side |
| Sar. | Sargon |
| Senn. | Sennacherib |
| sg. | singular |
| stat. | stative |
| unpub. | unpublished |
| WSem. | West Semitic |
| ' | collation |
| '' | emendation |
| ? | uncertain reading |
| : :. :: | cuneiform division marks |
| * | graphic variants (see LAS I p. XX) |
| 0 | uninscribed space or 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 |
| + | joined to |
| II | paralleled by or including parallels |
Andreas Fuchs
Andreas Fuchs, 'Abbreviations and Symbols', The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces, SAA 15. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 2001; online contents: SAAo/SAA15 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2021 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa15/saa15abbreviationsandsymbols/]