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Abbreviation	Fullform	Type	Publication
Tello	A. Parrot, Tello, vingt campagnes de fouilles (1877-1933) (Paris 1948)
Temple Hymns	lit. comp.; Å.W. Sjöberg, TCS 3; rev. ms. Å.W. Sjöberg
term.	terminative
Ternbach Collection	Merhav, R. 1981
Textes Scolaires	A. Cavigneaux, Textes Scolaires du temple de Nabu sha Hare, vol. 1
Textile Terminologies	C. Michel & M.-L. Nosch (eds.), Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the third to the first Millennia BC (Oxford 2010)
THeth.	Texte der Hethiter (Heidelberg 1971 ff.)
TI	S. Langdon, Tammuz and Ishtar (Oxford 1914)
Tierbilder	W. Heimpel, Tierbilder in der sumerischen Literatur (= Studia Pohl 2)
TigI. III.	P. Rost, Die Keilschrifttexte Tiglat-Pilesers III. (Leipzig 1893)
TIM	Texts in the Iraq Museum (Baghdad/Wiesbaden 1964 ff.)
Timekeeping	R. Englund, Administrative Timekeeping in Ancient Mesopotamia, JESHOI 31 (1988) 121-185
TJA (aka TJAUB)	E. Szlechter, Tablettes juridiques et administratives de la IIIe dynastie d'Ur et de la Ire Dynastie de Babylone … (Paris 1963)
TJDB	E. Szlechter, Tablettes juridiques de la Ire dynastie de Babylone conservées au Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève (Paris 1958)
TKTA	Transliterationen und Kollationen von Texten der Akkade-Zeit; http //www.uni-marburg.de/altorientalistik/tkta.html
TKU	W. Kless/H. Hatuptmann, Topographische Karte von Urartu (= AMI Erg. Bd. [NF] 3,1976)
TLB	Tabulae Cuneiformes a F.M.Th. de Liagre BöhI collectae (Leiden 1954 ff.)
TM	Find siglum Tell Mardikh
TMH (aka TuM, TMH NF, TMHNF)	Texte und Materialien der Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection . . . Jena, (Leipzig 1932-1934); NF = Neue Folge (Leipzig 1937, Berlin 1961 ff.)
TMN	C. Proust, Tablettes mathématiques de Nippur (=Varia Anatolica 18; Istanbul 2007)
TMO	Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient (Lyon 1981 ff.); série archéologique
TMS	Textes mathématiques de Suse (= MDP 34)	book
TN	temple name
TN	L. W. King, Records of the Reign of Tukulti-Ninib I (London 1904)
Tokyo SAG- tablet	lex. series; M. Yoshikawa and E. Matsushima, Orient 23/2, lff; MSL SS 1, 28ff.
Töpfer	W. Sallaberger, Der babylonische Töpfer und seine Gefäse
Topographical	A.R. George, Babylonian Topographical Texts (= 0LA 40)
Topoi	Topoi. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World (Berlin 2011ff.)	Series
TOVE	Trudy Otdela Vostoka	Journal
TPAK	C. Michel & P. Garelli, Tablettes paléo-assyriennes de Kültepe (Paris, 1997)
TR	Tablet siglum for texts from Tell al-Rimah
transcr.	transcribed, transcription
transl.	translated, translation
translit.	tranliterated, transliteration
TrDr (aka Trouvaille)	H. de Génouillac, La trouvaille de Dréhem (Paris 1911)
Treasures	Th. Jacobsen, The Treasures of Darkness
Tree and Reed	lit. comp.; ms. M. Civil
Trois Aspects	Y. Rosengarten, Trois aspects de la pensee religieuse sumerienne
TRS	H. de Genouillac, Textes religieux sumériens du Louvre (= TCL 15/16, 1930)
TRU (aka Legrain TRU)	L. Legrain, Le temps des rois d'Ur (= Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 199, Paris 1912)
TSA (aka de Genouillac TSA)	H. de Genouillac, Tablettes sumeriennes archaiques
TSO	Texte und Studien zur Orientalistik, Hildesheim
Tsouparopoulou 2008	C. Tsouparopoulou, The Material Face of Bureaucracy Writing, Sealing and Archiving Tablets for the Ur III State at Drehem (Cambridge PhD dissertation 2008)
TSS (aka Jestin Shuruppak, TS&Scaron;)	R. Jestin, Tablettes sumériennes de Shuruppak conservées au Musée de Stamboul (Paris 1937)
TSU (aka Limet Ur III Brussels)	H. Limet, Textes sumeriens de la IIIe dynastie d'Ur
TTAED	Türk Tarih Arkeologya ve Etnografya Dergisi (Istanbul)
TTC	Trente tablettes cappadociennes (by G. Contenau.; 1919)	book
TTKY	Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayinlari (Ankara 1935 ff.)
TU	F. Thureau-Dangin, Tablettes d'Uruk (= TCL 6, 1922)
TUAT	Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments (Gütersloh 1982 ff.)
TÜBA-AR	Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi Arkeoloji Dergisi (Ankara 1998ff.)	Journal
TuL	E. Ebeling, Tod und Leben nach den Vorstellungen der Babylonier
Tummal Inscr.	lit. comp.; E. Sollberger, JCS 16, 40ff; Ali Letters 99ff. B 9
Türen (aka A. Salonen, Türen)	A. Salonen, Die Türen des alten Mesopotamien (Helsinki 1961), (= AASF B 124)
TuT (aka Telloh, TUT)	G. Reisner, Tempelurkunden aus Telloh (Berlin 1901)
TUU (aka Umma, H. Sauren TUU, Topographie)	H. Sauren, Topographie der Provinz Umma nach den Urkunden der Zeit der III. Dynastie von Ur, I Kanäle und Bewässerungsanlagen (diss., Heidelberg 1966)
Two Elegies	lit. comp.; S.N. Kramer, Two Elegies on a Pushkin Museum Tablet; Å.W. Sjöberg, JAOS 103, 315ff. (first elegy)
Two Scribes	lit. comp.; ms. M. Civil; rev. ms. S.J. Tinney
Two Women A	lit comp.; BE 31, 36 and dupls.; ms. A. Cavigneaux
Two Women B	lit. comp.; BE 31,28 and dupls.; ms. M. Civil
U	Find siglum, Ur (London/Philadelphia/Baghdad)
UAVA	Untersuchtungen zur Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Ergänzuingsbände zu ZA (Berlin 196o ff.)
UCLM	tablets in the collection of the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology of the Univ. of California at Berkeley
UCP	University of California Publications in Semitic Philology (Berkeley 1907 ff.); s. NESt.
UCP 9/2 (aka STR)	H. E. Lutz, Sumerian Temple Records of the Late Ur Dynasty (= UCP 9/2, 1928)
UCU	M. Widell, The Administrative and Economic Ur III Texts from the City of Ur (Piscataway 2003)
UDT	J. Nies, Ur Dynasty Tablets (= AB 25, 1920)
Udughul OB	incantation series; M. Geller, FAOS 12
UE	Ur Excavations. Publications of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania to Mesopotamie (Oxford/Philadelphia 1927 ff.)
UET	Ur Excavations. Texts (London 1928 ff.)
UET 2 supp (aka UET 2 Sp)	Amedeo Alberti and Francesco Pomponio, Pre-Sargonic and Sargonic texts from Ur edited in UET 2, Supplement (= Studia Pohl SM 13)
UF (aka UgaritForsch)	Ugarit-Forschungen (Kevelaer/Neukirchen-Vluyn 1969 ff.)
Ugaritica (aka Ug)	Ugaritica. Mission de Ras Shamra (Paris 1939-1978)
UGASL (aka G.J. Selz, UGASL)	G. J. Selz, Untersuchungen zur Götterwelt des altsumerischen Stadtstaates von Lagash, OPSNKF 13 (Philadelphia 1995)
Ugumu	lex. series ugu-mu; MSL 9, 51ff.
UHF	M.J. Geller, Forerunners to Udug-hul (= FAOS 12)
UIOM	tablets in the collections of the Univ. of Illinois Oriental Museum
UKN	O. Melikishvili, Urartskie klinoobraznye nadpisi (Moskau 1960); II (= VDI 3, 1971, pp. 229-255)
UM	Tablet siglum of the University Museum, Philadelphia
UMM	University Museum Monograph. University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Philadelphia 1949 ff.).	Series
Umma	G. Contenau, Umma sous la dynaste d'Ur 1916
UMT (aka Unger Mem. Vol.)	In Memoriam Eckhard Unger Beitrage zu Geschichte, Kultur und Religion des alten Orient
unil.	unilingual
Unity and Diversity	H. Goedicke and J.J.M. Roberts, eds., Essays in the History, Literature and Religion of the Ancient Near East
Univ.	university
UNL	G. Pettinato, Untersuchungen zur neusumerischen Landwirtschaft I, 1. und 2. Teil (Naples 1967)
unpubl.	unpublished
UNT (aka Waetzoldt Textilindustrie, Textilindustrie)	H. Waetzoldt, Untersuchtungen zur neusumerischen Textilindustrie (Rom 1972)
Ur III	Ur III period
Ur III Temple	R. Zettler, The Ur III Temple of Inanna at Nippur (= BBVO 11)
Ur III-Fischerei (aka R.K. Englund, Fischerei)	R. Englund, Organisation und Verwaltung der Ur III-Fischerei (= BBVO 10)
Ur, Assur und Babylon	H. Schmökel, Ur, Assur und Babylon, drei Jahrtausende im Zweistromland (Stuttgart 1955)
Urbaba lff'.	royal inscr.; Steible NBW 1, 134ff.
Urdukuga	royal mscr.
Urdukuga 1	(StOr 49,34f.)
Urdukuga 2	(RIME 4,95 Urdukuga 2)
Urdukuga 3	(RIME 4,96 Urdukuga 3)
Urdun to Shulgi	letter; Michalowski Correspondence 216ff.
Urenlilla to Ensi and Sanga	letter; Ali Letters 105ff. B 10
Urnammu lff.	royal inscr.; Steible NBW 2, 93ff

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