| 3R | (H.C. Rawlinson and) G. Smith, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia. Vol. III: A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria (London 1870) |
| AAA | Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology |
| 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) |
| AEAD | S. Parpola and R.M. Whiting (eds.), Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary (Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Helsinki 2007) |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| AHw | W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (Wiesbaden 1958-81) |
| AIO | Archeologia lranica et Orientalis |
| Annus Divination | A. Ann us (ed.), Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World (OIS 6, Chicago) |
| 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 18, Rome 1981) |
| Assyria 1995 | S. Parpola and R.M. Whiting (eds.), Proceedings of the l0th Anniversary Symposium of the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Helsinki, September 7-11, 1995 (Helsinki 1997) |
| BaM | Baghdader Mitteilungen |
| BASOR | Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |
| BATSH | Berichte der Ausgrabung Tall Šēḫ. Ḥamad/ Dūr-Katlimmu |
| BBEA | B. Landsberger, Brief des Bischofs von Esagila an Konig Asarhaddon. Mededelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, afd. letterkunde, N.R. 28/6 (Amsterdam 1965) |
| BCSMS | Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies |
| BIWA | R. Borger, Beiträge zum Inschriftenwerk Assurbanipals. Die Prismenklassen A, B, C ... , mit einem Beitrag von Andreas Fuchs (Wiesbaden 1996) |
| BM | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| Brinkman Post-Kassite | J.A. Brinkman, A Political History of Post-Kassite Babylonia (AnOr 43, Roma 1968) |
| BSAI | British School of Archaeology in Iraq |
| CAD | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago |
| CAH | Cambridge Ancient History |
| CDA | J. Black, A. George and N . Postgate ,A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian. SANT AG 5 (Wiesbaden 2000) |
| Cole Governor's Archive | S .W. Cole, Nippur IV: The Early Neo-Babylonian Governor's Archive from Nippur (OIP 114, Chicago 1996) |
| Cole Nippur | S.W. Cole, Nippur in Late Assyrian Times (SAAS 4, Helsinki 1996) |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| CTN | Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud |
| Deller Zagros | K. Deller, "Ausgewählte neuassyrische Briefe betreffend Urarṭu zur Zeit Sargons II," in P.E. Pecorella and M. Salvini (eds.), Tra lo Zagros e l'Urmia. Ricerche storiche e archeologiche nell'Azerbaigian iraniano (Rome 1984) 96-122. |
| de Vaan Bel-ibni | J.M.C.T. de Vaan, "lch bin eine Schwertklinge des Königs". Die Sprache des Bēl-ibni (AOAT 242 , Kevelaer and Neukirchen-Vluyn 1995) |
| DNWSI | 1. Hoftijzer and K. Jongeling, Dictionary of the North- West Semitic Inscriptions (Handbuch der Orientalistik I 21/I-II, Leiden- New York - Köln 1995) |
| Eph'al Arabs | I. Eph' al, The Ancient Arabs (Jerusalem 1982) |
| Fales Cento Lettere | F .M. Fales, Cento lettere neo-assire (Venice 1983) |
| Fales TP III | F.M. Fales, "Tiglat-pileser III tra annalistica reale ed epistolografia quotidiana", in F. Pecchioli Daddi and M.C. Guidotti (eds.), Narrare gli eventi(Studia Asiana 3, Rome 2005) 163-191 |
| Fales Moving | F.M. Fales, "Moving around Babylon: On the Aramean and Chaldean Presence in Southern Mesopotamia", in E . Cancik-Kirschbaum, M. van Ess and J. Marzahn (eds.), Babylon: Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident (Berlin 2011) 91-112 |
| Fales and Lanfranchi Lettere | F .M. Fales and G.B. Lanfranchi, Lettere dalla corte assira (Venice 1992) |
| Festschrift Balestrazzi | D. Morandi Bonacossi, E. Rova, F. Veronese and P. Zanovello (eds.), Tra Oriente e Occidente. Studi in onore di Elena Di Filippo Balestrazzi (Padua 2006) |
| Festschrift Eph'al | M . Cogan and D. Kahn (eds.), Treasures on Camels' Humps: Historical and Literary Studies from the Ancient Near East Presented to Israel Eph'al (Jerusalem 2008) |
| Festschrift Larsen | J.G. Dercksen (ed.), Assyria and Beyond - Studies Presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen (PIHANS 100, Leiden 2004) |
| Festschrift Lipiński | K. Van Lerberghe and A . Schoors (eds.), lmmigration and Emigration within the Ancient Near East. Festschrift E. Lipiński (OLA 65 , Louvain 1995) |
| Festschrift Moscati | E. Acquaro (ed .), Aile soglie della classicità: il Mediterraneo tra tradizione e innovazione . Studi in onore di Sabatino Moscati (Pisa- Rome 1996) |
| Festschrift Oded | G. Galil, M. Geller and A. Millard (eds.), Homeland and Exile: Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of Bustenay Oded (Leiden- Boston 2009) |
| Festschrift Oppenheim | R.D. Biggs and J.A. Brinkman (eds.), From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: Studies Presented to A. Leo Oppenheim (Chicago 1964) |
| Festschrift Parpola | M . Luukko, S. Svard and R. Mattila (eds.), Of God(s), Trees, Kings, and Scholars: Neo-Assyrian and Related Studies in Honour of Simo Parpola (StOr 106, Helsinki 2009) |
| Festschrift Saporetti | P. Negri Scafa and S. Viaggio (eds.), Dallo Stirone al Tigri, dal Tevere all'Eufrate: Studi in onore di Claudio Saporetti (AIO 477, Rome 2009) |
| Festschrift Stier | R. Stiehl and G.A. Lehmann (eds.) Antike und Universalgeschichte. Festschrift Hans Erich Stier zum 70. Geburtstag am 25. Mai 1972 (Fontes et Commentationes, Supplementband 1, MUnster 1972) |
| FNALD | J.N. Postgate, Fifty Neo-Assyrian Legal Documents (Warminster 1976) |
| Fuchs Sar. | A. Fuchs, Die Inschriften Sargons II. aus Khorsabad (Göttingen 1994) |
| GPA | J.N. Postgate, The Governor's Palace Archive (CTN 2, London 1973) |
| Grayson Chronicles | A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (Texts from Cuneiform Sources 5, Glückstadt 1975) |
| HANEM | History of the Ancient Near East: Monographs |
| Helsinki Atlas | S. Parpola and M. Porter, The Helsinki Atlas of the Near East in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Helsinki 2001) |
| Hameen-Anttila Grammar | Hameen-Anttila, A Sketch of Neo-Assyrian Grammar (SAAS 13, Helsiniki 2000) |
| IM | tablets in the collections of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad |
| JCS | Journal of Cuneiform Studies |
| JNES | Journal of Near Eastern Studies |
| K | tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| KAV | O. Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur verschiedenen Inhalts (Wissenschafliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 35, Leipzig 1920) |
| KBo | Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi |
| Kessler Topogarphie | K. Kessler, Untersuchungen zur historischen Topographie Nordmesopotamiens nach keilschriftlichen Quellen des 1. Jahrtausends v .Chr. (Wiesbaden 1980) |
| LAS | S. Parpola, Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon andAssurbanipal I,II (AOAT 5/1-2,Neukirchen-Vluyn 1970, 1983). |
| Lipiński Aramaeans | E. Lipiński, The Aramaeans: Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion (OLA 100, Louvain 2000). |
| Luckenbill Senn. | D.D. Luckenbill, The Annals of Sennacherib (Oriental Institute Publications 2, Chicago 1924) |
| Luukko Variation | M. Luukko, Grammatical Variation in Neo-Assyrian (SAAS 16, Helsinki 2004) |
| MARV | Mittelassyrische Rechtsurkunden und Verwaltungstexte |
| MAss | siglum of texts excavated in the German excavations at Assur in 1990 |
| Mattila Magnates | R. Mattila , The King's Magnates (SAAS 11 , Helsinki 2000) |
| Mélanges Garelli | D . Charpin and F . Joannès (eds.), Marchands, diplomates et empéreurs: Études sur la civilisation mésopotamienne offertes à Paul Carelli ("Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, Paris 1991) |
| Millard Eponyms | A. Millard , The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire (SAAS 2, Helsinki 1994) |
| MIO | Mitteilungen des Instituts für Orientforschung |
| MVAeG | Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatisch- ägyptischen Gesellschaft |
| 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], etc.) |
| O | siglum of texts in the Royal Museum of Art and History , Brussels |
| OA | Oriens Antiquus |
| Oded Deportations | B. Oded , Mass Deportations and Deportees in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Wiesbaden 1979) |
| OHCC | K. Radner and E . Robson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture (Oxford 2011) |
| OIP | Oriental Institute Publications |
| OIS | Oriental Institute Seminars |
| OLA | Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta |
| OLZ | OrientaJistische Literaturzeitung |
| Or. | Orientalia, Nova Series |
| Parker Mechanics | B.J. Parker, The Mechanics of Empire (Helsinki 2001 ) |
| Payne-Smith | J. Payne Smith (ed.), A Compendious Syriac Dictionary (Oxford 1903) |
| PIHANS | Publications de l 'Institut historique-archéologique néerlandais de Stamboul |
| PNA | K. Radner and H . Baker (eds.), The Prosopography of the Neo- Assyrian Empire (Helsinki 1998-2011) |
| Postgate TCAE | J .N. Postgate, Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire (Studia Pohl, Series Maior 3 , Rome 1974) |
| QGS | Quaderni di Geografia Storica |
| RA | Revue d' assyriologie |
| Radner Macht | K. Radner, Die Macht des Namens (SANTAG 8, Wiesbaden 2005) |
| RGTC | Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes |
| RIMA | Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Assyrian Periods |
| RINAP | Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period |
| RIA | Reallexikon der Assyriologie |
| SAA | State Archives of Assyria |
| SAAB | State Archives of Assyria Bulletin |
| SAAS | State Archives of Assyria Studies |
| StAT | Studien zu den Ass ur-Texten |
| StOr | Studia Orientalia |
| STT | 0 .R. Gurney and J .J. Finkelstein, The Sultantepe Tablets I (London 1957); O.R. Gurney and P. Hulin, The Sultantepe Tablets II (London 1964) |
| T | siglum of texts excavated at Tell Tayinat, Tell Sabi Abyad |
| T Tadmor Tigl. | H. Tadmor, The Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III, King of Assyria (Jerusalem 1994) |
| TCL 3 | F. Thureau-Dangin , Une relation de la huitième campagne de SargonTell Sabi Abyad (Textes cuneiformes du Louvre 3, Paris 1912) |
| TH | Tell Halaf (Friedrich et al. [1940]) |
| TUAT | Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments |
| VanDriel Cult | G . van Driel, The Cult of Aššur (Assen 1969) |
| Vera Chamaza Moab | G.W. Vera Chamaza , Die Rolle Moabs in der neuassyrischen Expansionspolitik (AOAT 321, Münster 2005) |
| wo | Die Welt des Orients |
| Woodington Grammar | N.R. Woodington, A Grammar of the Neo-Babylonian Letters of the Kuyunjik Collection (Unpublished PhD dissertation , Yale 1982) |
| WZKM | Wiener Zeitschrift ftir die Kunde des Morgenlandes |
| YBC | siglum of tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie |
| ZDPV | Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins |
| Ann. | Annal |
| ARI | Assyrian Royal Inscriptions |
| Asb | Assurbanipal |
| Bibl. | biblical |
| class | classical |
| coll. | collated, collation |
| CVC | Consonant-vowel-consonant |
| DN | divine name |
| e. | edge |
| f. | female, feminine |
| GN | geographical name |
| lit. | literally |
| m. | masculine |
| MA | Middle Assyrian |
| MB | Middle Babylonian |
| mng. | meaming |
| mod. | modern |
| ms. | manuscript |
| NA | Neo-Assyrian |
| NB | Neo-Babylonian |
| NN | Uncertain personal name |
| OA | Old Assyrian |
| OB | Old Babylonian |
| obv. | obverse |
| pl. | plate, plural |
| PN | personal name |
| prt | preterite |
| r., rev. | reverse |
| s. | left side |
| Sar. | Sargon |
| SB | Standard Babylonian |
| sg. | singular |
| subj. | subjunctive |
| Summ. | Summary inscription |
| t | plate (=Tafel) |
| Tgl | Tiglath-pileser |
| unpub. | unpublished |
| var. | variant |
| vent. | ventive |
| ZT | Ziggurrat terrace |
| ! | collation |
| !! | emendation |
| ? | uncertain reading |
| :: :. : | cuneiform divi sion 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 |
| [ ...... ] | major break |
| ... | untranslatable word |
| ...... | untranslatable passage |
| —> | see also |
| + | joined to |
| (+) | indirect join |
Mikko Luukko
Mikko Luukko, 'Bibliographical Abbreviations', The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud, SAA 19. Original publication: Winona Laka, IN, Eisenbrauns, 2012; online contents: SAAo/SAA19 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2021 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa19/abbreviationsandsymbols/]