Abbreviations
| AAS | Archives Administratives Sumériennes |
| ADFU | Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Uruk-Warka |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| AHw | Akkadisches Handwörterbuch |
| AnOr | Analecta Orientalia |
| AO | Der Alte Orient |
| AOAT | Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| AoF | Altorientalische Forschung |
| AOS | American Oriental Society |
| ARCANE | Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean |
| ArOr | Archiv Orientální |
| AS | Assyriological Studies |
| ASJ | Acta Sumerologica |
| AuOr | Aula Orientalis |
| BIN | Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of J. B. Nies |
| BiMes | Bibliotheca Mesopotamica |
| BiOr | Bibliotheca Orientalis |
| BuB | Babel und Bibel |
| CAD | Chicago Assyrian Dictionary |
| CDLB | Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin |
| CDLJ | Cuneiform Digital Library Journal |
| CDLN | Cuneiform Digital Library Notes |
| CM | Cuneiform Monographs |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| CUSAS | Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology |
| DP | Documents présargoniques |
| DPA | Étude de documents de la période d’Agadé appartenant á l’Université de Liège |
| ECTJ | Early Cuneiform Texts from Jena |
| ETB | Excavations at Tell Brak |
| FAOS | Freiburger Altorientalische Studien |
| FT | Fouilles de Telloh |
| GAG | Grundriss der Akkadishen Grammatik |
| GMTR | Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record |
| HANES | History of the Ancient Near East/Studies |
| HSS | Harvard Semitic Series/Studies |
| ITT | Inventaire des Tablettes de Telloh |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| JCS | Journal of Cuneiform Studies |
| JNEH | Journal of Near Eastern History |
| JNES | Journal of Near Eastern Studies |
| JSS | Journal of Semitic Studies |
| MAH | Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva |
| MAD | Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary |
| MC | Mesopotamian Civilizations |
| MCS | Manchester Cuneiform Studies |
| MDOG | Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-gesellschaft zu Berlin |
| MDP | Mémoires de la Délégation en Perse |
| MEE | Materiali Epigrafici di Ebla |
| MHET | Mesopotamian History and Environment: Texts |
| MSL | Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon |
| NABU | Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires |
| NTSŠ | Nouveaux Textes Sumériens de Shuruppak |
| OAIC | Old Akkadian Inscriptions in the Chicago Field Museum |
| OECT | Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts |
| OIC | Oriental Institute Communications |
| OIP | Oriental Institute Publications |
| OLA | Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta |
| OLZ | Orientalistische Literaturzeitung |
| OPKF | Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund |
| OrNS | Orientalia Nova Series |
| OSP | Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia Chiefly from Nippur |
| PBS | University of Pennsylvania, Publications of the Babylonian Section |
| PIHANS | Publications de l’Institut historique-archéologique néerlandais de Stamboul |
| PUL | Patrimoine de l’Université de Liège |
| RA | Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archéologie Orientale |
| RIAA | Recueil des inscriptions de l’Asie antérieure des Musées royaux du Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles |
| RIME | Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Early Periods |
| RlA | Reallexicon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie |
| RCBMT | A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts |
| RTC | Recuiel des Tablettes Chaldéennes |
| SANER | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records |
| SAOC | Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization |
| SEL | Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici |
| SPSCT | Sargonic and Pre-Sargonic Cuneiform Texts in the Yale Babylonian Collection |
| STTI | Sargonic Texts from Telloh in the Istanbul Archeological Museum |
| TCS | Texts from Cuneiform Sources |
| TCBI | Le tavolette cuneiformi di Adab delle collezioni della Banca d’Italia |
| TIM | Texts in the Iraq Museum |
| TIMA | Text in the Iraq Museum Akkadian Series |
| TMH | Texte und Materialien der Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection Jena |
| TMH NF | Texte und Materialien der Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection Jena Neue Folge |
| TSŠ | Textes sumériens de Shuruppak |
| UM | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| UVB | Vorläufiger Bericht über die von der Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Uruk-Warka unternommenen Ausgrabungen |
| WF | Wirtschaftstexte aus Fara |
| WO | Die Welt des Orients |
| YNER | Yale Near Eastern Researches |
| YOS | Yale Oriental Series |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie |