Bibliographical Abbreviations
AAA Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 1–28 (Liverpool 1908–1948).
ÄAT Ägypten und Altes Testament. Studien zu Geschichte, Kultur und Religion Ägyptens und des Alten Testaments.
aATU K. Hecker, Altassyrische Texte in Umschrift. www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/HPM/index.php
AbB Altbabylonische Briefe in Umschrift und Übersetzung.
ABL R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian letters belonging to the Kouyounjik collection of the British Museum.
Adš G. Wilhelm / D. L. Stein, Das Archiv des Šilwa-Teššup, 1–9.
AfO (Beih.) Archiv für Orientforschung (Beihefte).
AHw. W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch.
AION Annali dell’Istituto (Universitario) Orientale di Napoli.
AJBI Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute.
AJS Actes Juridiques Susuiens (= MDP 22–24).
Akkadica Akkadica. Revue semestrielle de la Fondation Assyriologique Georges Dossin.
AKT Ankara Kültepe Tabletleri (Ankaraner Kültepe-Tafeln).
ALL N. Wasserman, Akkadian Love Literature of the Third and Second Millennium BCE (= Leipziger Altorientalische Studien 4).
AlT D. J. Wiseman, The Alalakh Tablets.
AMD (Studies in) Ancient Magic and Divination.
AMT R. C. Thompson, Assyrian medical texts from the originals in the British Museum (London 1923).
Amurru Amurru (Paris 1996ff.).
ANES Ancient Near Eastern Studies. An annual (publ.) by the School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology University of Melbourne.
AnSt. Anatolian Studies. Journal of the British Institute of Archaeo-logy at Ankara.
AO Tablets in the collections of the Musée du Louvre.
AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament.
AoF Altorientalische Forschungen.
AOS American Oriental Series.
API E. Herzfeld, Altpersische Inschriften.
ArAn Archivum Anatolicum.
ARM Archives Royales de Mari.
ArOr. Archív Orientální.
ARRIM Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project.
AS Assyriological Studies (Chicago).
ASJ Acta Sumerologica.
Ass. Field number of tablets excavated at Assur.
Astronomical Diaries A. J. Sachs / H. Hunger, Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia.
ATHE B. Kienast, Die altassyrischen Texte des Orientalischen Seminars der Universität Heidelberg und der Sammlung Erlenmeyer-Basel.
Atra-ḫasīs W. G. Lambert / A. R. Millard, Atra-ḫasīs. The Babylonian story of the flood.
AUCT Andrews University Cuneiform Texts.
AulaOr. Aula Orientalis. Revista de estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo.
AUWE Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka. Endberichte, DAI Baghdad (Mainz 1987–).
AWTL F. Ismail, Altbabylonische Wirtschaftsurkunden aus Tall Leilān Syrien (PhD thesis Tübingen 1991).
BabA Babylonische Archive (Dresden 2002ff.).
BagF Baghdader Forschungen.
BagM Baghdader Mitteilungen.
Ballad of Early Rulers Line numbering after Y. Cohen, Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age (Atlanta 2013) 132–139.
BAM F. Köcher et al., Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen.
BATSH Berichte der Ausgrabung Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad / Dūr-Katlimmu.
BBR H. Zimmern, Beiträge zur Kenntnis der babylonischen Religion.
BE The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania.
Bēl rēmanni M. Jursa, Das Archiv des Bēl-rēmanni (= PIHANS 86).
BiMes. Bibliotheca Mesopotamica.
BIN Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, Yale University
BiOr. Bibliotheca Orientalis.
BIWA R. Borger, Beiträge zum Inschriftenwerk Assurbanipals.
BM Tablets in the collections of the British Museum.
BMS L. W. King, Babylonian magic and sorcery.
Bo. Field number of tablets excavated at Boghazköy.
BRM J. P. Morgan, Babylonian records in the library of J. Pierpont Morgan.
BSA Bulletin on Sumerian Agriculture.
BWL W. G. Lambert, Babylonian wisdom literature.
CAD The Assyrian Dictionary of the University of Chicago.
Cagni Erra L. Cagni, L’epopea di Erra (= Studi Semitici 34).
CBS Tablets in the collections of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia).
CCT Cuneiform Texts from Cappadocian Tablets in the British Museum.
CDA J. A. Black / A. George / N. Postgate, A concise dictionary of Akkadian.
CH Codex Hammurapi.
CHANE Culture and History of the Ancient Near East.
Chuera S. Jakob, Die mittelassyrischen Texte aus Tell Chuēra in Nordost-Syrien.
CNIP Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications.
CRRAI Compte rendu, Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale.
CT Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum.
CTMMA Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
CTN Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud.
CunMon. Cuneiform Monographs.
CUSAS Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology.
DamM Damaszener Mitteilungen.
DCCLT N. Veldhuis (ed.), Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts. oracc.museum.upenn.edu/dcclt/.
DCS D. Charpin/J.-M. Durand, Documents cunéiformes de Strasbourg conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire (= RGC Cah. 4).
EA J. A. Knudtzon, Die El-Amarna-Tafeln. Cf. W. L. Moran, The Amarna letters.
Edubba 7 F. N. H. Al-Rawi / S. Dalley, Old Babylonian Texts from Private Houses at Abu Habbah, Ancient Sippir.
Ee Enūma elîš (W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths [2013]; T. R. Kämmerer / K. A. Metzler, Das babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos Enūma elîš [= AOAT 375, 2012]).
Emar D. Arnaud, Recherches au Pays d’Aštata. Emar 6/1–4. Textes sumériens et accadiens.
FAOS (Beih.) Freiburger Altorientalische Studien (Beihefte).
FLP Tablets in the collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
FM Florilegium Marianum (= Mémoires de NABU).
Fs. Alp H. Otten / E. Akurgal / H. Ertem / A. Süel (eds.), Hittite and other Anatolian and Near Eastern Studies in honour of Sedat Alp (= Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma ve Tanıtma Vakfı Yayınları 1, Ankara 1992).
Fs. De Meyer H. Gasche / M. Tanret / C. Janssen / A. Degraeve (eds.), Cinquante-deux réflexions sur le Proche-Orient ancien: offertes en hommage à Léon De Meyer (= MHEO 2, 1994).
Fs. Donbaz Ş. Dönmez (ed.), DUB.SAR É.DUB.BA.A Studies Presented in Honour of Veysel Donbaz (Istanbul 2010).
Fs. Garelli D. Charpin / F. Joannès (eds.), Marchands, diplomates et empereurs. Études sur la civilisation mésopotamienne offertes à Paul Garelli (Paris 1991).
Fs. Geller S. V. Panayotov / L. Vacín (eds.), Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic. Studies in Honor of Markham J. Geller (Leiden/Boston 2018).
Fs. Günbattı İ. Albayrak / H. Erol / M. Çayır (eds.), Studies in Honour of Cahit Günbattı (Ankara 2015).
Fs. Hoffner G. M. Beckman / R. H. Beal / G. McMahon (eds.), Hittite studies in honor of Harry A. Hoffner Jr. on the occasion of his 65th birthday (Winona Lake 2003).
Fs. Kraus G. van Driel / Th. J. H. Krispijn / M. Stol / K. R. Veenhof (eds.), Zikir šumim: Assyriological studies presented to F. R. Kraus on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (= Studia Francisci Scholten memoriae dicata 5, Leiden 1982).
Fs. Lambert A. R. George / I. L. Finkel (eds.), Wisdom, gods and literature: Studies in Assyriology in Honour of W. G. Lambert (Winona Lake 2000).
Fs. Larsen J. G. Dercksen (ed.), Assyria and beyond: studies presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen (= PIHANS 100).
Fs. Matouš B. Hruška / G. Komoróczy (eds.), Festschrift Lubor Matouš, 1–2 (Assyriologia 5/1–2 = Az Eötvös Loránd tudományegyetem Ókori történeti tanszékeinek kiadványai 24–25, Budapest 1978).
Fs. Owen G. Wilhelm (ed.), General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 11/2: in honor of David I. Owen on the occasion of his 65th birthday, October 28, 2005 (= SCCNH 18, 2009).
Fs. N. Özgüç M. J. Mellink / E. Porada / T. Özgüç (eds.), Aspects of Art and Iconography. Anatolia and its Neighbors. Nimet Özgüç’e armağan. Studies in Honor of Nimet Özgüç (Ankara 1993).
Fs. Reiner F. Rochberg-Halton (ed.), Language, Literature and History. Philological and Historical Studies Presented to Erica Reiner (= AOS 67, 1987).
Fs. Röllig B. Pongratz-Leisten / H. Kühne / P. Xella (eds.), Ana šadî Labnāni lū allik: Beiträge zu altorientalischen und mittelmeerischen Kulturen: Festschrift für Wolfgang Röllig (= AOAT 247).
Fs. Sjöberg H. Behrens / D. Loding / M. T. Roth (eds.), DUMU-E2-DUB-BA-A. Studies in honor of Åke W. Sjöberg (= OccPubl. S. N. Kramer Fund 11, 1989).
Fs. Steve L. De Meyer / H. Gasche / F. Vallat (eds.), Fragmenta historiae elamicae: mélanges offerts à M.-J. Steve.
Fs. Stol R. J. van der Spek (ed.), with G. Haayer, F. A. M. Wiggermann, M. Prins, J. Bilbija, Studies in Ancient Near Eastern World View and Society, Presented to Marten Stol on the Occasion of His 65th Birtday, 10 November 2005, and His Retirement from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Fs. Veenhof J. G. Dercksen et al. (eds.), Veenhof Anniversary Volume. Studies presented to Klaas R. Veenhof on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (= PIHANS 52, 2001).
Fs. Walker C. Wunsch (ed.), Mining the archives. Festschrift for Christopher Walker on the occasion of his 60th birthday 4 October 2002, (= BabA 1, 2002).
Fs. Wilcke W. Sallaberger / K. Volk / A. Zgoll (eds.), Literatur, Politik und Recht in Mesopotamien. Festschrift für Claus Wilcke (= Orientalia Biblica et Christiana 14, 2003).
GAG W. von Soden, Grundriß der akkadischen Grammatik.
GAO N. J. C. Kouwenberg, A Grammar of Old Assyrian.
Gilg. A. R. George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh-Epic (Oxford 2003), and recent publications.
Gs. Sachs E. Leichty / M. deJong Ellis / P. Gerardi (eds.), A scientific humanist. Studies in memory of Abraham Sachs (= OccPubl.S. N. Kramer Fund 9, 1988).
Gs. Vargyas Z. Csabai (ed.), Studies in Economic and Social History of the Ancient Near East in Memory of Péter Vargyas (= Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Studies 2, 2014).
HAL L. Koehler / W. Baumgartner / J. J. Stamm, Hebräisches und Aramäisches Lexikon zum Alten Testament.
HANEM 2 G. Beckman, Texts from the Vicinity of Emar in the Collection of Jonathan Rosen (History of the Ancient Near East 2).
HEG J. Tischler/G. Neumann, Hethitisches etymologisches Glossar.
Hermitage Tablets in the collections of the Hermitage St. Petersburg.
Ḫg Lexical series ḪAR-gud, published MSL 5–11.
Ḫḫ Lexical series ḪAR-ra = ḫubullu, published MSL 5–11.
HSAO Heidelberger Studien zum Alten Orient.
HSS Harvard Semitic Series.
HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual.
ICK Inscriptions cunéiformes du Kultépé.
IM Tablets in the collections of the Iraq-Museum.
Imdilum M. Ichisar, Les archives cappadociennes du marchand Imdilum.
Iraq Iraq. Journal of the British Archaeological Institute.
Ištar Bagdad M. P. Streck, Die Klage „Ištar Bagdad“, in: Fs. Wilcke, 304–309.
Ištar Louvre M. P. Streck / N. Wasserman, The Man is Like a Woman, the Maiden is a Young Man. A new edition of Ištar-Louvre.
ITT Inventaire des tablettes de Tello.
IV R H. C. Rawlinson et al., The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia.
Izi Lexical series izi = išātu, published MSL 13, 154ff.
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society.
JCS Journal of Cuneiform Studies.
JEOL Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap “Ex Oriente Lux”.
JRAS Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies.
KADP F. Köcher, Keilschrifttexte zur assyrisch-babylonischen Drogen- und Pflanzenkunde: Texte der Serien uru.an.na : maltakal, ḪAR.ra : ḫubullu und Ú-GAR-šú (= DAWIfO 28).
KAJ E. Ebeling, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur juristischen Inhalts (= WVDOG 50).
KAL Keilschrifttexte aus Assur literarischen Inhalts.
KAR E. Ebeling, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur religiösen Inhalts.
KIM Kültepe International Meetings (Turnhout 2015–).
KKS L. Matouš / M. Matoušov-Rajmová, Kappadokische Keil-schrifttafeln mit Siegeln aus den Sammlungen der Karls-universität in Prag.
KTT M. Krebernik, Keilschrifttexte aus Tuttul.
KUB Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazköi 1–60 (Berlin 1921–1990).
Lamaštu W. Farber, Lamaštu. An Edition of the Canonical Series of Lamaštu Incantations and Rituals and Related Texts from the Second and First Millennia B.C.
LANE Languages of the Ancient Near East (Winona Lake 2008ff.).
Langdon Tammuz S. H. Langdon, Tammuz and Ishtar.
LAPO Littératures Anciennes du Proche-Orient (Paris 1967ff.).
LBAT Th. G. Pinches et alii, Late Babylonian astronomical and related texts.
LE Laws of Eshnunna. Editions: A. Goetze, The Laws of Eshnunna. R. Yaron, The Laws of Eshnunna.
Lie Sg. A. G. Lie, The inscriptions of Sargon II, king of Assyria.
LKA E. Ebeling, Literarische Keilschrifttexte aus Assur.
M. Field number of tablets excavated at Mari.
MAD I. J. Gelb, Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary.
Malku Lexical series malku = šarru, published AOAT 50.
MARI MARI. Annales de recherches interdisciplinaires.
MARV H. Freydank et al., Mittelassyrische Rechtsurkunden und Verwaltungstexte.
MBLET O. R. Gurney, The Middle Babylonian legal and economic texts from Ur.
MCS Manchester Cuneiform Studies.
MDP Mémoires de la Délégation en Perse.
MEE Materiali Epigrafici di Ebla (Neapel 1979–).
MesCiv. Mesopotamian Civilizations (Winona Lake 1989ff.).
MesZL R. Borger, Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon (= AOAT 305).
MHEM / MHET / MHEO Mesopotamian History and Environment. Memoirs /Texts / Occasional Publications.
MRS Mission de Ras Shamra (Paris 1936–1978).
MSL Materialien zum sumerischen Lexikon / Materials for the Sumerian lexicon.
NABU Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (Paris / Rouen 1987ff.).
NATN D. I. Owen, Neo-Sumerian archival texts primarily from Nippur in the University Museum, the Oriental Institute and the Iraq Museum.
NBC Tablets in the collections of the Nies Babylonian Collection (Yale University, New Haven).
NCBT Tablets in the collections of the Newell Collection of Babylonian Tablets (Yale University, New Haven).
ND Field number of tablets excavated at Nimrud (Kalḫu).
OAA Old Assyrian Archives (Leiden 2002ff.; in PIHANS).
OBO Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis.
OBTR S. Dalley / C. B. F. Walker / J. D. Hawkins, Old Babylonian Tablets from Tell al Rimah.
OccPubl. Bab. Fund Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund.
OECT Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts.
OIP Oriental Institute Publications (Chicago 1924ff.).
OLA Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta.
Or. Orientalia.
ORA Orientalische Religionen in der Antike (Tübingen 2009ff.).
Parfümrezepte E. Ebeling, Parfümrezepte und kultische Texte aus Assur.
PBS The Museum Publications of the Babylonian Section, University of Pennsylvania.
Persika Persika (Paris 2001ff.).
PIHANS Publications de l’Institut Historique-Archéologique Néerlandais de Stamboul.
PNA K. Radner et al. (eds.), The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
POAT W. C. Gwaltney, The Pennsylvania Old Assyrian texts (= HUCA Suppl. 3).
Prag K. Hecker / G. Kryszat / L. Matouš, Kappadokische Keil-schrifttafeln aus den Sammlungen der Karlsuniversität Prag.
PRAK H. de Genouillac, Premières recherches archéologiques à Kich: mission d’Henri de Genouillac 1911–1912.
PRU C. F.-A. Schaeffer (ed.), Le Palais Royal d’Ugarit.
PSBA Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology.
PSD Å.W. Sjöberg et al. (eds.), The Sumerian dictionary of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
QS 3 T. Richter / S. Lange, Das Archiv des Idadda (Qaṭna Studien 3).
QuadSem. Quaderni di Semitistica.
RA Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archéologie Orientale.
RATL J. Eidem, The Royal Archives from Tell Leilan (= PIHANS 117).
REL Revised Eponym List (Barjamovic, Hertel and Larsen 2012).
RGTC W. Röllig et al. (eds.), Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes.
RIMA/E The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Assyrian Periods / Early Periods.
RINAP The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period.
RlA Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie.
Rm. Rassam. Tablets in the collections of the British Museum.
RSO Ras Shamra − Ougarit
SAA State Archives of Assyria.
SAAB State Archives of Assyria. Bulletin.
SAALT State Archives of Assyria. Literary Texts.
SAAS State Archives of Assyria Suppl.
SAD M. P. Streck (ed.), Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries.
Sadberk V. Donbaz, Cuneiform Texts in the Sadberk Hanım Museum (Istanbul 1999).
SANER Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records.
SCCNH Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians.
SD Studia et Documenta ad Iura Orientis Antiqui Pertinentia.
SEAL M. P. Streck / N. Wasserman, Sources of Early Akkadian Literature. www.seal.uni-leipzig.de.
Sefarad Sefarad. Revista de la Escuelade Estudios Hebráicos.
Shemshara 1 J. Eidem / J. Læssøe, The Shemshara Archives. Vol. 1: The Letters (Copenhagen 2001).
ShT J. Læssøe, The Shemshāra tablets: a preliminary report (Copenhagen 1959).
SpTU Spätbabylonische Texte aus Uruk.
ŠRT C. D. Gray, The Šamaš Religious Texts.
StAT Studien zu den Assur-Texten.
StBoT Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten.
StPohl SM Studia Pohl. Dissertationes scientificae de rebus Orientis antiqui, Series Maior.
Streck Asb. M. Streck, Assurbanipal (= Vorderasiatische Bibliothek 7).
STT O. R. Gurney / J. J. Finkelstein / P. Hulin, The Sultantepe tablets.
Subartu Subartu, edited by the European Centre for Upper Mesopotamian Studies (Turnhout 1995ff.).
Sumer Sumer. A Journal of Archaeology and History in Arab World.
Šūpê-amēli Line numbering after Y. Cohen, Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age (Atlanta 2013) 84–101.
TBER J.-M. Durand, Textes babyloniens d’époque récente.
TCL Textes Cunéiformes. Musée du Louvre.
TCS A. L. Oppenheim et al. (eds.), Texts from cuneiform sources.
TDP R. Labat, Traité akkadien de diagnostics et pronostics médicaux.
TIM Texts in the Iraq Museum.
TLT C. A. Vincente, The 1987 Tell Leilan tablets dated by the Limmu Habil-kinu, 1–2.
TMH Texte und Materialien der Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities im Eigentum der Universität Jena.
TPAK C. Michel / P. Garelli, Tablettes paléo-assyriennes de Kültepe.
UCP University of California Publications (Berkeley 1907–).
UET Ur Excavations. Texts.
UF Ugarit-Forschungen. Internationales Jahrbuch für die Altertumskunde Syrien-Palästinas.
UFBG W. R. Mayer, Untersuchungen zur Formensprache der babylonischen „Gebetsbeschwörungen“.
VAT Tablets in the collections of the Vorderasiatische Abteilung (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).
VOM A. Finet (ed.), La Voix de l’opposition en Mésopotamie.
VS Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler.
WAG Tablets in the collections of the Walters Art Gallery.
Weidner Tn. E. F. Weidner, Die Inschriften Tukulti-Ninurtas.
WHM Tablets in the collections of The Welcome Institute of the History of Medicine, London.
Wiseman Treaties Wiseman, D. J., The Vassal-Treaties of Esarhaddon, Iraq 20 (1958) 1–99.
WVDOG Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orientgesellschaft.
WZKM Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes.
YBC Tablets in the Babylonian Collection, Yale University.
YOS Yale Oriental Series.
ZA Zeitschrift für Assyriologie.
ZABR Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte.