Abbreviations
| AHw |
W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, Wiesbaden 1959–1981 |
| AMT |
R.C. Thompson, Assyrian Medical Texts from the originals in the British Museum, London 1923 |
| AO |
Museum siglum Louvre, Paris |
| AoF |
Altorientalische Forschungen |
| Ash. |
Museum siglum Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
| AuOr Suppl. |
Aula Orientalis Supplements |
| BM |
Museum siglum of the British Museum, London |
| BiOr |
Bibliotheca Orientalis |
| CAD |
The Assyrian Dictionary of the University of Chicago |
| CBS |
Museum siglum of the University Museum in Philadelphia |
| CCT |
Cuneiform Texts from Cappadocian Tablets in the British Museum |
| CNMA |
Museum siglum of the Copenhagen National Museet Antiksamlingen, Copenhagen |
| CT |
Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| CTH |
L. Laroche, Catalogue des textes hittites, Paris 1966; Reprint 1971 |
| CUSAS |
Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology |
| EAH |
Tablets from the E.A. Hoffman Collection (in the Yale Babylonian Collection) |
| ETCSL |
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature ( |
| JNES |
Journal of Near Eastern Studies |
| LKA |
E. Ebeling (unter Mitwirkung von F. Köcher/L. Rost), Literarische Keilschrifttexte aus Assur, Berlin 1953 |
| K |
Museum siglum of the British Museum in London (Kuyunjik) |
| KAR |
E. Ebeling, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur religiösen Inhalts I/II (= WVDOG 28, 1919; 34, 1923) |
| KBo |
Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi |
| KTU |
M. Dietrich/ O. Loretz/ J. Sanmartín, Die keil-alphbetischen Texte aus Ugarit (= AOAT 24/1, 1976) |
| KUB |
Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazköi |
| LB |
Tablets in the de Liagre Bohl Collection (Leiden) |
| MC |
Mesopotamian Civilizations |
| MM |
Tablets in the collections of the Abbey of Montserrat (Barcelona) |
| MS |
Manuscript Schøyen; object signature, Schøyen Collection Oslo and London |
| NCBT |
Siglum of the Newell Collection of Babylonian Tablets (now Yale University, New Haven) |
| OECT |
Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts |
| PGM |
K. Preisendanz and others (eds.), Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die griechischen Zauberpapyri, 2 vols., 2nd ed., München/Leipzig, 1973–1974 |
| PRAK |
H. de Genouillac, Premières recherches archéologiques à Kich, Paris 1925 |
| RIME |
The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Early Periods, Toronto, 1990 ff. |
| SAA |
State Archives of Assyria, Helsinki, 1987 ff. |
| SEAL |
Sources of Early Akkadian Literature ( |
| SpTU |
Spätbabylonische Texte aus Uruk |
| STT |
O. Gurney/J. Finkelstein, The Sultantepe Tablets, I/II, London 1957/1964 |
| UHF |
M.J. Geller, Forerunners to Udug-hul: Sumerian exorcistic incantations. Stuttgart, 1985 |
| VA |
Museum siglum of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin |
| VAT |
Museum siglum of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin |
| VBoT |
A. Götze, Verstreute Boghazköi-Texte, Marburg 1930 |
| VS |
Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler der (Königlichen) Museen zu Berlin |
| YBC |
Tablet siglum, Yale Babylonian Collection |
| YOS |
Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts |
| ZA |
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie |