Ancient Near East

Abbreviations
An active research interest in the Ancient Near East means negotiating a vast
array of relevant publications in a quest for detailed information, pertinent data
and original insights. Amongst these works are a large number of journals,
periodicals, monograph series and occasional publications which – for the sake
of convenience – are usually cited in abbreviated form. Whilst prefatory pages
often provide a key to these abbreviations, they are rarely comprehensive and
are often either missing or lacking in convenience.

To help remedy this situation, AncientNearEast.Net is pleased to have compiled

a list of the more useful abbreviations employed. As a further aid, a select
number of common acronyms and sigla have been inserted into the list, largely
concerned with various relevant institutions, textual indicators and the like.

Please select from one of the initial letters below in order to consult the
relevant section of the list.

A detailed list of abbreviations used particularly in Assyriology may also be

consulted at the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) website.

Comments and suggestions for this list may be communicated to the

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abbreviation title

Ä&L Ägypten und Levante : Zeitschrift für ägyptische

Archäologie und deren Nachbargebiete, Verlag der
Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Wien, 1990-
AA Archäologischer Anzeiger, Jahrbuch des Deutschen
Archäologischen Instituts, Berlin

AAA Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, Liverpool,

1908-1948

ÄA Ägyptische Abhandlungen

AAAS Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes, Damascus

AASOR Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research,

New Haven, Cambridge MA, 1919-

ÄAT Ägypten und Altes Testament, Wiesbaden

AAWLM Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der

Literatur in Mainz

ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. Freedman, D.N., 6

volumes, New York, 1992

ABL Assyrian and Babylonian Letters, ed. Harper, R.F., 5

volumes, Chicago, 1892-1911

ABSA Annual of the British School at Athens, London, 1894-

ADAJ Annual of the Department of Antiquities, Jordan,

Amman, 1951-

ADAIK Abhandlungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts

Kairo

AÉM Archives épistolaires de Mari, Paris, 1988-

AfO Archiv für Orientforschung, Berlin, 1923-

AHw Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, ed. W. von Soden, 3

volumes, Wiesbaden, 1965-1981

AION Annali dell’istituto orientale di Napoli, Naples, 1959-

AIP, AIPh, AIPHOS Annuaire de l’insitut de philologie et d’histoire

orientales et slaves, Université libre de Bruxelles,
Bruxelles, 1936-

AJA American Journal of Archaeology, Princeton, Baltimore,

1897-
AJP American Journal of Philology, Baltimore, 1880-

AJSLL American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature,

Chicago, 1895-1941

AMI Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, Berlin, 1929-38.

NF= Neue Folge, 1968-

ANEP The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old

Testament, 2nd edition, ed. James B. Pritchard

ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old

Testament, 2nd edition, ed. James B. Pritchard

AnnRevAnth Annual Review of Anthropology, Palo Alto, California,

1972-

AnOr Analecta Orientalia, Rome, 1931-

AnSt Anatolian Studies, British Institute of Archaeology at

Ankara, London, 1951-

AO Acta Orientalia

AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Kevelaer,

Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1969-

AOS American Oriental Series, New Haven, 1925-

AthMitt Athenische Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen

Instituts

AR Archeologické rozhledy, Prague

ARAB Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, ed.

Luckenbill, D.D., 2 volumes, University of Chicago
Press, 1926

ARE Breasted, J., Ancient Records of Egypt

ARI Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, ed. A.K. Grayson,

Weisbaden, 1972-1976.

ARM Archives royales de Mari, ed. A. Parrot & G. Dossin,

Paris, 1950-

ArOr Archiv orientální, Prague

AS Assyriological Studies, Chicago, 1931-

ASAE Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte, le Caire /

Cairo, 1900-

ASJ Acta Sumerologica, Hiroshima, 1979-

AW Antike Welt – Zeitschrift für Archäologie und

Kulturgeschichte, Mainz, 1970-

BA Biblical Archaeologist, Atlanta

BAe Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca, Fondation Égyptologique

Reine Elisabeth, Bruxelles

BaghMit Baghdader Mitteilungen, Berlin, 1960-

BAR, BARev Biblical Archaeology Review, Washington DC, 1975-

BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research,

New Haven, 1919-

BACE Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology, Sydney,

1990-

BES Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar, New York

Berytus Berytus Archaeological Studies, American University of

Beirut, Beirut, 1934-

BIAUL Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology, University of

London

BibOr, BiOr Bibliotheca Orientalia, Leiden, 1943-

BIFAO Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, le

Caire / Cairo, 1901-

BM siglum for British Museum, London

BMMA Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,

1905-1942

BN Biblische Notizen, Bamberg, Munich, 1976-

BSAE British School of Archaeology in Egypt, London

BSEG Bulletin de la Société d’Egyptologie de Genève, Geneva

BSFE Bulletin de la Société française d’égyptologie, Paris

BZ Biblische Zeitschrift

BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche

Wissenschaft

CAD (Chicago Assyrian Dictionary) The Assyrian Dictionary

of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

CAH Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge, 1970-

CAJ Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Cambridge, 1991-

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Washington DC, 1939-

CCE Cahiers de la Céramique égyptienne, IFAO, Le Caire,

1987-

CdÉ Chronique d’Égypte, Musée royaux d’art et d’histoire,

Bruxelles, 1925

CG, CGC Catalogue général du musée de Caire, Cairo, 1904-

CHB Chicago House Bulletin

CHD The Hittite Dictionary of the University of Chicago,

Chicago, 1980-

CNRS Centre National du Recherche Scientifique

CRAI Comptes rendu de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-

lettres, Paris, 1857-

CRIPEL Cahiers de recherches de l’institut de Papyrologie et

d’Egyptologie de Lille: Sociétés Urbaines en Égypte et au
Soudan

CT Coffin Texts – de Buck, The Egyptian Coffin Texts, 7

volumes, Chicago

CTM Concordia Theological Monthly

DAFI Délégation archéologique française en Iran, Paris, 1971-

DE Discussions in Egyptology, Oxford, 1985-

EA siglum for El Amarna texts, following the edition of
Knudtzon, J., Die El-Amarna Tafeln, Leipzig, 1915

EES Egypt Exploration Society

EI, ErIsr Eretz Israel, Jerusalem, 1951-

GM Göttinger Miszellen, Göttingen

GN geographical name

HSS Harvard Semitic Series, Cambridge MA, 1912-

HTR Harvard Theological Review

HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual

IEJ Israel Exploration Journal, Jerusalem, 1950

IES Israel Exploration Society

IJNA International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

ILN Illustrated London News, London, 1842-

IOS Israel Oriental Studies, Tel Aviv

Iran Iran – Journal of the Institute of Persian Studies,

London, 1963-

IrAnt Iranica Antiqua, Leiden, 1961-

Iraq Iraq, British School of Archaeology in Iraq, London,

1934-

IstMitt Istanbuler Mitteilugen, Istanbul, 1933-

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JA Journal asiatique, Paris 1822-

JAA Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

JAC Journal of Ancient Civilizations, Changchun, 1986-

JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society, New Haven,

1843-
JARCE Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, New
York, 1962-

JAS Journal of Archaeological Science, London, New York,

1974-

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, 1890-

JCS Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Cambridge MA, 1947-

JdE Journal d’Entrée (accessions register of the Egyptian

Museum, Cairo)

JdI Jahrbuch des deutschen archäologischen Instituts,

Berlin, 1886-

JdS Journal des Savants, Paris, 1816-

JEA Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Egypt Exploration

Society, London, 1914-

JEOL Jaarbericht – “ex oriente lux”, Leiden, 1933-

JESHO Journal of the Economic & Social History of the Orient,

Leiden, 1958-

JFA Journal of Field Archaeology, Boston, 1974-

JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies, London, 1880-

JIES Journal of Indo-European Studies, Hattiesburg,

Minnesota, 1973-

JKF Jahrbuch für Kleinasiatische Forschung, Heidelberg,

1978-

JMA Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies, University of Chicago,

1942-

JPOS Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society

JQR Jewish Quarterly Review, Philadelphia, 1910-

JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology

JRAI Journal of the Royal Asiatic Institute

JRAS Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1834-

JRGS Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, London

JRS Journal of Roman Studies, London, 1911-

JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Sheffield,

1978-

JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament – Supplement

Series, Sheffield

JSS Journal of Semitic Studies, Manchester, 1956-

JSSEA Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian

Antiquities, Toronto, 1978-

JTS Journal of Theological Studies, London, 1899

JWH Journal of World History, Paris, 1973-

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JWSR Journal of World-Systems Research

KBo Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi, Berlin & Leipzig, 1916-

1921.

KRI Ramesside Inscriptions, 7 volumes, ed. K.A. Kitchen,

London, 1969-

KUB Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazköi, volumes I-XXXIV,

Berlin, 1921-1944.

LAAA Liverpool Annals of Archaeology & Anthropology,

Liverpool, 1908-1948

LD Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien, 13 volumes, ed.

Karl Richard Lepsius, Berlin, 1849-58, Leipzig, 1913

LdÄ Lexicon der Ägyptologie, Wiesbaden

Levant Levant, Journal of the British School of Archaeology in

Jerusalem and the British Institute at Amman for
Archaeology and History, Annual of the Council for
British Research in the Levant, London, 1969-

LSS Leipziger Semitische Studien, Leipzig

MARI Mari: annales de recherches interdisciplinaires, Paris,
1982-

MÄS Münchner ägyptologische Studien, Munich, 1962-1988

MDAIK Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Institute

Abteilung Kairo, Mainz, 1956-

MDOG Mitteilungen des Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, Berlin,

1898-

Meditarch Mediterranean Archaeology – the Australian and New

Zealand Journal for the Archaeology of the
Mediterranean World, Sydney, 1988-

MIO Mitteilungen des Institut für Orientforschung

MMA siglum for Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

ms(s) manuscript(s)

NABU Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves at utilitaires, Paris,

1987-

NBC Niesse Babylonian Collection

NEA Near Eastern Archaeology, Atlanta

n.s., NS new series, Nova Series

o ostrakon, e.g. oBrussels E317

OA Oriens Antiquus, Rome, 1962-

OBO Orbis biblicus et orientalis, Freiburg, Switzerland,

1973-

OIP Oriental Institute Publications, University of Chicago,

1924-

OLA Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, Leuven, 1975-

OLZ Orientalische Literaturzeitung, Berlin, 1898-

Or (n.s.) Orientalia (new series), Rome, 1932-

OrSuec Orientalia Suecana, Stockholm, 1952-

p papyrus, e.g. pAnastasi = papyrus Anastasi

PA Památky archeologické, Prague, 1914-

PEF Ann Palestine Exploration Fund Annual, London, 1911-

PEFQS Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement,

London, 1869-1936

PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly, PEF, London, 1937-

P-M / P-M² Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian

Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, 7 volumes,
London, 1927-

PN siglum for personal name within text

PN Die ägyptischen Personennamen, ed. H. Ranke, 3

volumes, Glückstadt & Hamburg

PPS Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, London, 1935-

PRU Le palais royal d’Ugarit, ed. C. Schaeffer, Mission de

Ras Shamra, Paris, 1956-

PT Pyramid Texts

QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine,

Jerusalem, 1931-1950

RA Reallexicon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen

Archäologie

RA Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archéologie Orientale, Paris,

1886-

RB Revue Biblique, Paris, 1892-

RdA Revue d’Assyriologie

RdÉ Revue d’Égyptologie, Paris and Cairo, 1933-

RHA Revue Hittite et Asiatique, Paris, 1930-

RHR Revue de l’Histoire de Religions

RLA Reallexicon der Assyriologie, Berlin / New York

RLV Reallexicon der Vorgeschichte

RN siglum for royal name within text

RQ Revue de Qumran

RS siglum for Ras Shamra (Ugarit) texts

RSO Rivista degli studi orientali, Rome, 1907-

SAA Soviet Anthropology and Archaeology

SAK Studien zum altägyptischen Kultur, München,

Hamburg, 1974-

SAOC Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, University of

Chicago, 1931-

SCCNH Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the

Hurrians

SEb Studi Eblaiti (Mission Archeologica Italiana in Siria),

Roma, 1979-

SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

SHAJ Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan,

Amman, 1982-

SIMA Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology

SMEA Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Rome, 1966-

StBoT Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten

StOr Studia Orientalia, Helsinki, 1925-

Sumer Sumer, Baghdad (Directorate General of Antiquities),

1945-

SPAW Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der

Wissenschaften, Berlin (after 1938 = SDAW)

TA Tel Aviv – Journal of the Sonia and Marco Nadler

Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv,
1974-

TAD Türk Arkeoloji Dergisi, Ankara

TM find siglum for Tell Mardikh / Ebla, Syria

TN siglum for temple name in text

TT Theban Tomb

TynBul Tyndale Bulletin, Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and

Theological Research, Cambridge, 1966-

UF Ugarit-Forschungen, Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1969-

Urk. Urkunden des ägyptischen Altertums, ed. G. Steindorff,

Leipzig & Berlin, 1906-1958.

VT Vetus Testamentum, Leiden, 1951-

VT Supp Vetus Testamentum Supplementum

WA World Archaeology, London, 1969-

Wb Wörterbuch des ägyptischen Sprache, 7 volumes, ed. A.

Erman & H. Grapow, Berlin & Leipzig

WB Wiener Beitrage zur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Asiens

WO, WdO Die Welt des Orients, Stuttgart, 1952-

WZKM Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes,

Vienna, 1887-

YNER Yale Near Eastern Researches, New Haven, 1967-

YOS Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts, New Haven,

1915-

ZA Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische

Archäologie, Leipzig, Berlin, 1886-

ZÄS Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertum, Leipzig,

Berlin, 1863-

ZAW Zeitschrift für alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Berlin,

1881-

ZDMG Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft,

Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, 1847-
 ZDPV Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins, Stuttgart,
Wiesbaden, 1878-

ZSem Zeitschrift für Semitistik

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