Abbreviations
Periodicals’ abbreviations are generally as in L’ Annee philologique. Abbreviated references to selected journals, works, and sources may be traced via this list:
| AAICT |
Mode et al. (eds.) 2006. |
| AAntASH |
Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. |
| AArchASH |
Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. |
| ACSS |
Ancient civilizations from Scythia to Siberia. |
| ADART |
A. Sachs / H. Hunger, Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia. Volumes: I: 652–262 B.C., Vienna 1988; II: 261–165 B.C., Vienna 1989; III 164–61 B.C., Vienna 1996, V: Lunar and planetary texts, Vienna 2001; VI: Goal Years texts, Vienna 2006. |
| AE |
Arsakid Era. |
| AMI |
Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran. |
| AMIT |
Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan. |
| ANRW |
H. Temporini/W. Haase (eds.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (Berlin, 1972–). |
| AOASH |
Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. |
| AWE |
Ancient West and East. |
| BAI |
Bulletin of the Asia Institute. New Series. |
| BCH |
Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique. |
| BM |
The British Museum. |
| BMC Arabia |
Hill 1922. |
| BMC Parthia |
Wroth 1903. |
| BNJ |
Brill’s New Jacoby (Leiden: Brill; |
| BNP |
Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, ed. by H. Cancik and H. Schneider. English Edition / Editor-in-chief Chr. F. Salazar (Leiden, Boston: Brill). |
| BRM |
Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan. |
| CAH |
Cambridge Ancient History (Cambridge). |
| CHI 3 |
E. Yarshater (ed.), The Cambridge History of Iran, vols. 3(1) and 3(2) (Cambridge 1983). |
| CIG |
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum. |
| CIL |
Schmitt (ed.) 1989. |
| CPh |
Classical Philology. |
| CRAI |
Comptes rendus de l’ Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. |
| DB |
Inscription of Darius I from Bisutun. |
| DBb-j |
Legends b–j of the inscription of Darius I from Bisutun. |
| DNa |
Inscription a of Darius I from Naqsh-i Rustam. |
| DNP |
Der neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike, H. Cancik; H. Schneider (Hrsgg.), Stuttgart, Weimar, 1996–2003. |
| DPe |
Inscription e of Darius I from Persepolis. |
| EAKSU |
Treister, Yablonskii (eds.) 2013. |
| EncIr |
Encyclopædia Iranica, ed. by E. Yarshater, Costa Mesa, New York; online version: |
| EncIslam |
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Leiden: Brill (3 editions). |
| ESM |
Newell 1938/1978. |
| EW |
East and West. New Series. |
| FAKh |
Fouilles d’ Aï Khanoum. |
| FGrH |
Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, ed. F. Jacoby. |
| FHG |
Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum. |
| IANT |
Izvestiīa Akademii nauk Turkmenskoī SSR. Seriīa gumanitarnyh nauk. Ashkhabat. |
| IG |
Inscriptiones Graecae. |
| IGCH |
An Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards, M. Thompson, O. Mørkholm, C.M. Kraay (eds.), New York 1973. |
| IMKU |
Istoriīa material’noī kul’tury Uzbekistana (Tashkent). |
| IrAnt |
Iranica Antiqua. |
| ITurkmFAN |
Izvestiīa Turkmenskogo filiala Akademii nauk SSSR. Ashgabat. |
| JA |
Journal Asiatique. |
| JRAS |
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| KP |
Der kleine Pauly. Lexikon der Antike, K. Ziegler; W. Sontheimer (hrsg.), Bd. I–V, München 1979. |
| KSIIMK |
Kratkie soobshcheniīa Instituta istorii material’noī kul’tury ANSSSR. |
| LGPN |
A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, ed. by P.M. Fraser, E. Matthews et al., Oxford. |
| LIMC |
The Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. |
| MIA |
Materialy i issledovaniīa po arkheologii SSSR (Moscow—Leningrad). |
| MDAFA |
Mémoires de la délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan. |
| MMA |
The Metropolitan Museum of Arts. |
| MMAI |
Mémoires de la Mission Archéologique en Iran. |
| MX |
Movsēs Xorenac’i. Thomson 2006. |
| NC |
Numismatic Chronicle. New Series. |
| NPi |
Inscription of Narseh from Paikuli. |
| NPIIN |
Alram 1986. |
| NTsA |
Numizmatika Tsentral’noī Azii (Tashkent). |
| Persianism |
Strootman, Versluys (eds.) 2017. |
| PBA |
Proceedings of the British Academy. |
| PT |
Pamīatniki Turkmenistana. |
| RE |
Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaften (Stuttgart, 1894–). |
| RGDA |
Res Gestae Divi Augusti. |
| RosA |
Rossiīskaīa arkheologiīa. |
| RSO |
Rivista degli Studi Orientali. |
| S |
Siglum for D. Sellwood, An Introduction to the Coinage of Parthia, London 1980. |
| SA |
Sovetskaīa arkheologiīa. |
| SC I |
Houghton, Lorber 2002. |
| SC II |
Houghton, Lorber, Hoover 2003, 2008. |
| SE |
Sovetskaīa étnografiīa. |
| SE |
Seleukid Era. |
| SEG |
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. |
| SGE |
Sbornik gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. |
| ŠKZ |
Shahpur I’s inscription of Ka’ba-ye Zardosht: Huyse 1999 |
| SRAA |
Silk Road Art and Archaeology. |
| TGE |
Trudy gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. |
| TIIEAANT |
Trudy Instituta istorii, arkheologii i étnografii Akademii nauk Turkmenskoī SSR (Ashgabat). |
| TKhAEE |
Trudy Khorezmskoī arkheologo-etnograficheskoī ekspeditsii (Moscow). |
| TYuTAKE |
Trudy Yuzhno—Turkmenistanskoī arkheologicheskoī kompleksnoī ekspeditsii (Ashgabat—Moscow). |
| USA |
Uspekhi sredneaziatskoī arkheologii. |
| VDI |
Vestnik drevneī istorii. |
| WSM |
Newell 1941/1977. |
| XPh |
Xerxes’ Persepolis inscription. |
| ZVORAO |
Zapiski Vostochnogo otdeleniīa Rossiīskogo arkheologicheskogo obshchestva. Novaīa seriīa. |