Abbreviations
| 5R |
Rawlinson, H.C. & Pinches, T.G. (1909): The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia. Vol. V: A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia, London. |
| AA |
Arts Asiatiques. |
| AAE |
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. |
| AAICAB |
Grégoire, J.-P. (1996): Archives administratives et inscriptions cunéiformes : Ashmolean Museum, Bodleian Collection, Oxford, Paris. |
| AAS |
Grégoire, J.-P. (1970): Archives administratives sumériennes, Paris. |
| AB |
Assyriologische Bibliothek. |
| ABC |
Grayson, A.K. (1975): Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (Texts from Cuneiform Sources 5), Locust Valley. |
| ABL |
Harper, R.F. (1892–1914): Assyrian and Babylonian Letters belonging to the K(ouyunjik) Collection(s) of the British Museum, 14 vol., London. |
| AchHist |
Achaemenid History. |
| AcIr |
Acta Iranica. |
| AHw |
von Soden, W. (1965–1981): Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |
| AfO |
Archiv für Orientforschung. |
| AION |
Annali dell’Istituto Orientale di Napoli. |
| AIONS |
Annali dell’Istituto Orientale di Napoli. Supplementi. |
| AIT |
Archäologie in Iran und Turan. |
| AJA |
American Journal of Archaeology. |
| AJAH |
American Journal of Ancient History. |
| AmEthnol |
American Ethnologist |
| AMI |
Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran. |
| AMI. Erg. |
Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran. Ergänzungsband. |
| AMIT |
Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan. |
| AnOr |
Analecta Orientalia. |
| AnSt |
Anatolian Studies. |
| AO |
Département des Antiquités orientales (siglum of cuneiform tablets in the Louvre). |
| AOAT |
Alter Orient und Altes Testament. |
| AoF |
Altorientalische Forschungen. |
| AOS |
American Oriental Series. |
| ARCANE |
Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. |
| ARES |
Archivi reali di Ebla. Studi. |
| ARET |
Archivi reali di Ebla. Testi. |
| AS |
Assyriological Studies. |
| ASJ |
Acta Sumerologica. |
| AuOr |
Aula Orientalis. |
| AUTBM |
Sigrist, M. & Ozaki, T. (2013): Administrative Ur III Texts in the British Museum (PPAC 5), Changchun. |
| BAI |
Bulletin of the Asia Institute. |
| BAOM |
Bulletin of the Ancient Orient Museum. |
| BAR |
British Archaeological Reports. |
| BBVO |
Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient. |
| BICS |
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. |
| BiMes |
Bibliotheca Mesopotamica. |
| BiOr |
Bibliotheca Orientalis. |
| BIWA |
Borger, R. (1996): Beiträge zum Inschriftenwerk Assurbanipals. Die Prismenklassen A, B, C = K, D, E, F, G, H, J und T sowie andere Inschriften, Wiesbaden. |
| BM |
British Museum (siglum of cuneiform tablets). |
| BNF |
Beiträge zur Namenforschung. |
| BPOA |
Biblioteca del Proximo Oriente Antiguo. |
| BSA |
Bulletin on Sumerian Agriculture. |
| BSOAS |
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. |
| CAD |
The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. |
| CAH |
The Cambridge Ancient History. |
| CBI |
Walker, C.B.F. (1981): Cuneiform brick inscriptions in the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the City of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, the City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, London. |
| CDAFI |
Cahiers de la Délégation Archéologique Française en Iran. |
| CDLB |
Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin. |
| CDLI |
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. |
| CDLJ |
Cuneiform Digital Library Journal. |
| CDLP |
Cuneiform Digital Library Preprints. |
| CHANE |
Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. |
| CHI |
The Cambridge History of Iran. |
| CleO |
Classica et Orientalia. |
| CM |
Cuneiform Monographs. |
| CMAO |
Contributi e materiali di archeologia orientale. |
| CPOA |
Civilisations du Proche-Orient: archéologie et environnement, philologie, religions et cultures. Série 1: archéologie. |
| CPOP |
Civilisations du Proche-Orient: archéologie et environnement, philologie, religions et cultures. Série 2: philologie. |
| CRAIBL |
Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. |
| CT |
Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum. |
| CTN |
Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud. |
| CUSAS |
Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology. |
| CUT |
Corpus der ud.gal.nun-Texte (see article by Zand). |
| D.N. |
Siglum of texts from Dehno. Cf. Mofidi-Nasrabadi, B. (2013): “Neue archäologische Untersuchungen in Dehno, Khuzestan (April-Mai 2012)”, Elamica 3, 88–132. |
| DdA |
Dialoghi di archeologia. |
| DHA |
Dialogues d’histoire ancienne. |
| DP |
Allotte de la Fuÿe, M.F. (1907–1920): Documents présargoniques, Paris. |
| DUROM |
Durham Oriental Museum (see article by Maekawa). |
| EKI |
König, F.W. (1965): Die elamischen Königsinschriften (AfO. Beih. 16), Graz: Archiv für Orientforschung. |
| ElW |
Hinz, W. & Koch, H. (1987): Elamisches Wörterbuch (AMI 17), 2 vol., Berlin. |
| EncIr. |
Encyclopaedia Iranica. |
| EPSD |
Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary ( |
| ETCSL |
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature ( |
| FAOS |
Freiburger Altorientalische Studien. |
| GGA |
Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen. |
| GOF |
Göttinger Orientforschungen. |
| HdO |
Handbuch der Orientalistik. |
| HLC |
Barton, G. (1905–1914): Haverford Library Collection of Cuneiform Tablets, Philadelphia. |
| HSAO |
Heidelberger Studien zum Alten Orient. |
| HSS |
Harvard Semitic Series. |
| HumEcol |
Human Ecology. |
| IAS |
Biggs, R.D. (1974): Inscriptions from Tell Abu Salabikh (OIP 9), Chicago. |
| IEJ |
Israel Exploration Journal. |
| IrAnt |
Iranica Antiqua. |
| IRS |
Malbran-Labat, F. (1995): Les Inscriptions royales de Suse : briques de l’époque paléo-élamite à l’empire néo-élamite, Paris: Éd. de la Réunion des musées nationaux. |
| ITT |
Inventaire des tablettes de Tello. |
| JA |
Journal Asiatique. |
| JAC |
Journal of Ancient Civilizations |
| JAOS |
Journal of the American Oriental Society. |
| JASP |
Jutland Archaeological Society Publications. |
| JBL |
Journal of Biblical Literature. |
| JCS |
Journal of Cuneiform Studies. |
| JESHO |
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. |
| JNES |
Journal of Near Eastern Studies. |
| JRAS |
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. |
| K |
Museum siglum of the British Museum in London (Kuyunjik). |
| КСИИМК |
Краткие сообщения института археологии. |
| KSS |
Konar Sandal South |
| LAK |
Deimel, A. (1922): Liste der archaischen Keilschriftzeichen (Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Fara und Abu Hatab. Die Inschriften 1), Leipzig. |
| M |
Siglum of Middle Elamite Texts from Tal-e Malyan. |
| MC |
Mesopotamian Civilizations. |
| MDP |
Mémoires de la Délégation Perse. |
| MEJ |
Middle East Journal. |
| MHEM |
Mesopotamian History and Environment. Memoirs. |
| MHEO |
Mesopotamian History and Environment. Occasional Publications. |
| MMA |
Memoirs. Museum of Anthropology. |
| MSL |
Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon. |
| MVAeG |
Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatisch-Ägyptischen Gesellschaft. |
| MVN |
Materiali per il vocabulario neosumerico. |
| NABU |
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires. |
| NAC |
Numismatica e antichità classiche. |
| NATN |
Owen, D.I. (1982): Neo-Sumerian Archival Texts primarily from Nippur in the University Museum, the Oriental Institute and the Iraq Museum, Winona Lake. |
| NESt |
University of California publications. Near Eastern studies. |
| Ni |
Museum siglum of the Archaeological Museum, Istanbul (Nippur). |
| Nik |
Nikol’skij, M.V. (1908): Drevnosti Vostocnyja, III/2, St. Petersburg. |
| Nin |
Siglum of Neo-Elamite letters from Nineveh. |
| Nisaba |
Studi Assiriologici Messinesi (Messina 2002–). |
| NTSŠ |
Jestin, R. (1957): Nouvelles tablettes sumériennes de Shuruppak au Musée d’Istanbul, Paris. |
| OBO |
Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. |
| OBTR |
Dalley, S., Walker, C.B.F. & Hawkins, J.D. (1976): Old Babylonian Texts from Tell al Rimah, London. |
| OIP |
Oriental Institute Publications. |
| OLA |
Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. |
| OLP |
Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica. |
| OLZ |
Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. |
| OMRO |
Oudheidkundige mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden. |
| Or. |
Orientalia. |
| OrAnt |
Oriens Antiquus. |
| PF |
Persepolis Fortification Texts, partly published in Hallock, R.T. (1969): Persepolis Fortification Tablets (OIP 92), Chicago; Hallock, R.T. (1978): “Selected Fortification Texts”, CDAFI 8, 109–136; Arfaee, A. 2008: Persepolis Fortification Tablets (Fort. and Teh. Texts). Ancient Iranian Studies Series 5. Teheran. |
| PF-NN |
Persepolis Fortification Texts in draft editions by R.T. Hallock, cited from collated and corrected editions by W.F.M. Henkelman, some available via the Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment ( |
| PFUTS |
Persepolis Fortification Uninscribed Tablets. Seals. |
| PIHANS |
Publications de l’Institut historique-archéologique néerlandais de Stamboul. |
| PIOL |
Publications de l’Institut orientaliste de Louvain. |
| PNA |
Radner, K. & H.D. Baker (1998–2011): Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, vol. 1–3, Helsinki. |
| PPAC |
Periodic Publications on Ancient Civilisations. |
| PRK |
de Genouillac, H. (1924–1925): Premières recherches archéologiques à Kich: Mission d’Henri de Genouillac 1911–1912, Paris. |
| QuadSem |
Quaderni di Semitistica. |
| RA |
Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archéologie Orientale. |
| RAnt |
Res Antiquae. |
| RGTC |
Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes. |
| RHA |
Revue hittite et asianique. |
| RIMA |
Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Assyria. |
| RIME |
Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Early Periods. |
| RINAP |
Royal Inscriptions from the Neo-Assyrian Period. |
| RlA |
Reallexikon der Assyriologie. |
| RT |
Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes. |
| RTC |
Thureau-Dangin, F. (1903): Recueil de tablettes chaldéennes, Paris. |
| SAA |
State Archives of Assyria. |
| SAAB |
State Archives of Assyria. Bulletin. |
| SAAS |
State Archives of Assyria. Studies. |
| SANER |
Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records. |
| SAOC |
Studies in ancient oriental civilization. |
| SAT |
Sigrist, M. (1993–2000): Sumerian Archival Texts, Bethesda. |
| SEL |
Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente Antico. |
| SF |
Deimel, A. (1923): Schultexte aus Fara (WVDOG 43), Leipzig. |
| SÖAW |
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse. |
| StIr |
Studia Iranica. |
| StOr |
Studia Orientalia. |
| StOrE |
Studia Orientalia Electronica. |
| TAD |
Langdon, S. (1911): Tablets from the Archives of Drehem, Paris. |
| TAHT |
Akkadian administrative tablets from Haft Tappeh, published in Herrero, P. (1976): “Tablettes administratives de Haft-Tépé”, CDAFI 6, 93–116. |
| TAVO |
Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. |
| TC |
Legrain, L. (1913): “Collection Louis Cugnin: textes cunéiformes, catalogue, transcription et traductione”, RA 10, 41–68. |
| TCL |
Textes cunéiformes, Musées du Louvre (Paris 1910–). |
| TCS |
Texts from Cuneiform Sources (New York 1966–). |
| TCTI |
Lafont, B. & Yildiz, F. (1989–1996): Tablettes cunéiformes de Tello au Musée d’Istanbul, datant de l’époque de la IIIe Dynastie d’Ur (PIHANS 65 and 77), Leiden. |
| TLB |
Tabulae Cuneiformes a F.M.Th. de Liagre Böhl collectae. |
| TSŠ |
Jestin, R. (1937): Tablettes sumériennes de Shuruppak conservées au Musée de Stamboul, Paris. |
| TTM |
Stolper, M.W. (1984): Texts from Tall-i Malyan. I. Elamite Administrative Texts (1972–1974) (Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund 6), Philadelphia. |
| TUAT |
Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. |
| TZ |
Siglum for texts from Chogha Zanbil, published in MDP 41. |
| UE |
Ur Excavations. |
| UET |
Ur Excavations. Texts. |
| Ururu |
Schmidt, E.F. (1957): Persepolis II: Contents of the Treasury and Other Discoveries (OIP 69), Chicago, 64–65. |
| VAT |
Museum siglum of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin (Vorderasiatische Abteilung. Tontafeln). |
| VS |
Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler der (Königlichen) Museen zu Berlin (Berlin 1907–). |
| WVDOG |
Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft. |
| WZKM |
Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. |
| ZA |
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie. |
| ZDMG |
Zeitschrift der deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. |