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NUVI Neubabylonische Urkunden Verschiedenen Inhalts (Erkki Salonen)
NYPL (aka New York Library; TCNY; PIOL 19) H. Sauren, Les Tablettes Cuneiformes de l'Epoque d'Ur de la New York Public Library
O Museum sigla Antiquités (orientales), Musée du Cinquantenaire
OAAS Old Assyrian archives studies (Netherlands)
OAC (aka OrAntColl.) Orientis Antiqui Collectio (Rome)
OACC M. Larsen, The Old Assyrian City-State and its Colonies (Mesopotamia 4, 1976)
OACTA J. G. Dercksen, The Old Assyrian Copper Trade in Anatolia (Istanbul-Leiden 1996)
OAIC I. J. GeIb, Old Akkadian Inscriptions in Chicago Natural History Museum (Chicago 1955)
OAkk Old Akkadian period
OB Old Babylonian period
OB Contracts E. Stone, Old Babylonian Contracts from Nippur
OB extispicy Old Babylonian extispicy : omen texts in the British Museum (Ulla Jeyes; 1989)
OB Lu lex. series; Old Babylonian recensions of Lu; MSL 12, 151ff.
OB Temple Records (aka OBTR; Lau; OTR) R. Lau, Old Babylonian Temple Records (= Columbia University Oriental Studies 3, New York 1906, reprint 1966)
OBGT lex. series; Old Babylonian Grammatical Texts; MSL 4, 47ff
OBLA R. M. Whiting, Old Babylonian Letters from Tell Asmar; AS 22 (1987)
OBO Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis (Freiburg Sweitzerland 1973 ff.); Series archaeologica (1980 ff.)
OBTI (aka Ishchali) S. Greengus, Old Babylonian Tablets from Ishchali and Vicinity (Istanbul 1979)
OBTR St. Dalley, C. Walker, J. Hawkins, Old Babylonian Texts from Tell al Rimah (Hertford 1976)
obv. obverse
occ(s). occasion(s), occasionally
OECT Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts (Oxford 1923 ff.)
OeLZ (aka ÖLZ) Österreichische Lehrerzeitung
OIAR The Oriental Institute Annual Report
OIC Oriental Institute Communications (Chicago 1922 ff.)
OIMA The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Microfiche Archives (Chicago/London 1976ff.).
OIMP Oriental Institute Museum Publications Series
OIP Oriental Institute Publications (Chicago 1924 ff.)
OJA (aka OxfJA) Oxford Journal of Archaeology (Oxford)
OLA Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta (Leuven 1975 ff.)
Old Man lit. comp.; B. Alster, Mesopotamia 3, 90ff.
OLP Orientalia Lovaniensia periodica (Leuven 1970 ff.)
OLZ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (Berlin 1898 ff.)
OMRO Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden
Onomastikon V.V. Struve, Onomastika rannedinasticheskogo Lagasha
Ontario (aka Sigrist Ontario) M. Sigrist, Neo-Sumerian texts from the Royal Ontario Museum
OPBF Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund, vols. 1-8 (Philadelphia 19 . . ff.), succeeded by OPKF, vol. 9ff.
Opfermaterie F. Blome, Die Opfermaterie in Babylonien und Israel, I. Teil, SSAOI 4 (Rome 1934)
OPKF (aka OPSNKF) Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, vol. 9ff. (Philadelphia 1995ff.), succeeds OPBF vols. 1-8
Oppenheim Glass A. L. Oppenheim, Glass and Glassmaking in Ancient Mesopotamia, 1970
ORA Orientalische Religionen in der Antike: Ägypten, Israel, Alter Orient = Oriental Religions in Antiquity: Egypt, Israel, Ancient Near East (Tübingen 2009ff.). Series
OrAnt Oriens Antiquus (Rome 1962 ff.)
OrAntMisc Orientis Antiqui Miscellanea (Rom 1994ff.) Journal
Orient Orient. Report of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan (Tokyo 1960 ff.)
Orient-Express Orient-Express. Notes et nouvelles d’archéologie orientale (Paris 1991ff.) Journal
Orlinsky Vol. Eretz-Israel 16
OrNS (aka Or.) Orientalia, NS = Nova Series (1932 ff.)
OrSP (aka Or.) Orientalia, SP = Series Prior (Rome 1920-1930)
OrSu (aka OrSuec) Orientalia Suecana (Uppsala)
OSAD Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents (2003ff.)
OSP A. Westenholz, Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia Chiefly from Nippur, OSP 1 (= BiMes. 1, 1975), OSP 2 (= Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications 3, Copenhagen 1987)
OT H. Holma, Omen Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum (Leipzig 1923)
OTHRAB The Old Testament in the light of the historical records and legends of Assyria and Babylonia (Pinches, 1903)
OxfordEnc E. M. Meyers (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, 1–5 (New York 1997)
p, pp page(s)
PabilsagTale lit. comp.; CBS 11346 (STVC 89) (+) CBS 13961 (SEM 101) + CBS 15207 (PBS 13,44) + HS 1472 (TMH 4 52) (+) Ni.4174 (ISET 2, 88); ms. M. Civil
PakArch Pakistan Archaeology (Karachi 1964 ff.)
Paléorient Paléorient (Paris 1973 ff.)
PALMA Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities Series
PAM Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (Warsaw 1990ff.) Journal
Pantheon A. Deimel, Pantheon Babylonicum
PAPS Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia 1838 ff.)
part. partial(ly)
PAS (aka PAbS) P. Mander, Il Pantheon di Abu- Salablkh, Contributo allo studio del pantheon sumerico arcaico, IUO Series Minor (Naples 1986)
PBF Prähistorische Bronzefunde (Stuttgart)
PBS University of Pennsylvania, Publications of the Babylonian Section (Philadelphia 1911 ff.)
PDK E. Weidner, Politische Dokumente aus Kleinasien (= BoSt. 8-9, 1923)
PdP La Parola del Passato, Naples, journal
PDT M. Çig/H. Kizilyay/A. Salonen, Die Puzris-Dagan-Texte der Istanbuler Archaologischen Museen Part 1 = texts 1-725 (= AASF B 92, Helsinki 1956)
Peek (aka Pinches/Peek) T. Pinches, Inscribed Babylonian Tablets in the Possession of Sir Henry Peek (London 1888)
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly (London 1937 ff.)
pers. person(al)
Persica Persica. Uitgave van het Genootschap Nederland-Iran . . . (s'Gravenhage/Leuven 1963/64 ff.)
Personennamen M. Krebernik, Die Personennamen der Ebla-Texte. Eine Zwischenbilanz, BBVO 7 (Berlin 1988)
PHAV Oriental Studies Published in Commemoration of the Fortieth Anniversary (1883-1923) of Paul Haupt . . . (Baltimore-Leipzig 1926)
Philippika Philippika. Marburger altertumskundliche Abhandlungen (Wiesbaden 2004ff.) Series
Phoenix Phoenix. Bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap “Ex Oriente Lux” (Leiden 1955 ff.)
phon. Phonetic
PHPB (aka PHPKB) J.A. Brinkman, A Political History of Post-Kassite Babylonia 1158-722 B.C. (= AnOr. 43, 1968)
PIB (aka PBI; IB) Pontifico Istituto Biblico; Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome
PIHANS Publications de l'Institut historique-archéologique néerlandais de Stamboul (1956ff.)
PIOL Publications de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve 1970ff.). Series
PJB Palästina-Jahrbuch des Deutschen Evangelischen Instituts . . . zu Jerusalem (Berlin 1905-1941)
PKG Propyläen Kunstgeschichte (Berlin 1923-1926; 1967-1982)
PKG 14 W. Orthmann, Propyläen Kunstgeschichte, Bd. 14 Der Alte Orient (Berlin 1975)
PKOM Publikationen der Kaiserlich-Osmanischen Museen (Konstantinopel 1916ff.). Series
PKT (aka PKTA) E. Ebeling, Parfümrezepte und kultische Texte aus Assur. Sonderdruck aus Orientalia 17-19 (Rome 1950)
pl(s). plate(s)
PN(s) personal name(s)
PNAE The prosopography of the neo-Assyrian empire, Helsinki 1998 - …
PNAIT Cultural History Studies (Pejuhesh Nameh Anjoman-e Iraniye Tarikh) Journal
POA Próximo Oriente Antiguo, Instituto de Estudios Islámicos y del Oriente Próximo, Zaragoza 2003 - …
POAT W. C. Gwaltney, The Pennsylvania Old Assyrian Texts, 1983
poss. possessive
Post-OB Post-Old Babylonian
PPAC Periodic publications on ancient civilisations (Changchun Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, 1989ff.)
PPAC 1 (aka Adab; SIA) Yang Zhi, Sargonic Inscriptions from Adab (Chanchun, China 1989)
PPS Publications of the Palestine Section, Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia 1930 ff.)
Practical Voc. Assur lex. series; B. Landsberger and O.R. Gurney, AfO 18, 328ff.
PRAK H. de Genouillac, Premieres recherches archeologiques a Kich

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