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ESEM tablets in the collections of the Archaeological Museums, Istanbul
esp. especially
Essays Gordon The Bible World Essays in Honor of Cyrus H. Gordon
ETB Excavations at Tell Brak, edited by D. Oates, J. Oates & H. McDonald, 2001
ETCSL Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature <http //etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk> (Oxford)
Etelpidamu to Mardu letter-prayer, ms. P. Michalowski
Etudes Garelli (aka Études Garelli) Marchands, Diplomats et Empereurs Etudes sur la civilisation mesopotamienne offertes a Paul Garelli
EvM Evil-Merodach . . ., in B.T.A. Evitts, Inscriptions of the reigns of Evil-Merodach, Neriglissar and Laborosoarchod (=BT 6 B, 1892)
EVO Egitto e Vicino Oriente
Ewe and Grain lit. comp. ms. M. Civil, B. Alster and H. Vanstiphout, Acta Sum 9, lff.
Exaltation W.W. Hallo and J.A. van Dijk, The Exaltation of Inanna (YNER 3)
Examenstext A llt. comp. (Edubba A), Å.W. Sjöberg, ZA 64, 137ff., and dupls.
Examenstext B lit. comp. (Edubba B) ms. Å.W. Sjöberg
Expedition Expedition. Bulletin of the University Museum of the University of Pensylvania (Philadelphia 1958 ff.)
Expl. H. V. Hilprecht et al., Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century (Edinburgh/Philadelphia 1903). Book
ext. extispicy
F1 D. Collon, First impressions: cylinder seals in the Ancient Near East (London 1987; repr. with revisions: 2005). Book
FAOS Freiburger Altorientalische Studien (Freiburg 1975 ff.); Beih. = Beihefte Altassyrische Texte und Untersuchungen (1984 ff.)
FARG Forschungen zur Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte
Farmer's Instructions (aka Civil Farmer's Instructions, Farmer's Almanac, Georgica 1.1.1) M. Civil, The Farmer's Instructions A Sumerian Agncultural Manual (= Aula Or Suppl. 5)
Father and Son lit. comp. Å.W. Sjöberg JCS 25, 105ff. and dupl.; rev. ms. Å.W. Sjöberg
Fauna B. Landsberger, Die Fauna des Alten Mesopotamien (= ASAW 42/6)
fem. feminine
FHG E. Laroche, Fragments hittites de Genève, RA 45/3 (1951) pp. 131-138; 45/4 (1951) pp. 184-194; 46/1 (1952) pp. 42-50. Updated in E. Laroche, Sur les Fragments hittites de Genève (FHG), RA 46/4 (1952) p. 214
FHL J.-M. Durand/E. Laroche, Fragments hittites du Louvre, in Gs. K. Atatürk (Paris 1982) S. 73-107
fig(s). figure(s)
Fischerei (aka A. Salonen, Fischerei, FAM) A. Salonen, Die Fischerei im alten Mesopotamien nach sumerisch-akkadischen Quellen (Helsinki 1960), (= AASF B 166)
Flood Story lit. comp.; M. Civil, in W.G. Lambert and A.R. Millard, Atra-hasls The Babylonian Story of the Flood, 138ff.
Florenz K. Oberhuber, Sumerische un akkadische Keilschriftdenkmaler des Archaologischen Museums zu Florenz
FLP Museum siglum, Free Library of Phildadelphia
FM Florilegium Marianum Festschrift
FN field name(s)
fn. footnote
FNLD (aka FNALD) J. N. Postgate, Fifty Neo-Assyrian Legal Documents (Warminster 1976)
Fo (aka Fö) W. Förtsch, Altbabylonische Wirtschaftstexte aus der Zeit Lugalanda's und Urukagina's, VS 14/I (Leipzig 1916)
Foreign Trade W.F. Leemans, Foreign Trade in the Old Babylonian Period
Fowler and his Wife lit. comp., B. Alster, JCS 27, 214f.
fragm. fragment(ary)
freq. frequent(ly)
From the 21st Century S. Garfinkle & M. Molina, From the 21st Century B.C. to the 21st Century A.D. Proceedings of the International Conference on Sumerian Studies Held in Madrid 22–24 July 2010 (Eisenbrauns, 2013)
Frühdyn. Beterstatuetten E. Braun-Holzinger, Frühdynastische Beterstatuetten (Berlin 1977)
Frühe Schrift H. Nissen, P. Damerow, and R. Englund, Frühe Schrift und Techniken der Wirtschaftsverwaltung im alten Vorderen Orient (Berlin 1990)
Frymer-Kensky Ordeal T.S. Frymer-Kensky, The Judicial Ordeal in the Ancient Near East (diss., Yale Univ.)
Fs Festschrift (Anniversary volume, Studies in honor of, etc.)
Fs Astour Crossing boundaries and linking horizons studies in honor of Michael C. Astour on his 80th birthday, edited by Gordon D. Young, Mark W. Chavalas, Richard E. Averbeck, with the assistance of Kevin L. Danti (Bethesda, Md. 1997)
Fs Borger Festschrift für Rykle Borger zu seinem 65. Geburtstag am 24. Mai 1994 tikip santakki mala basmu, herausgegeben von Stefan M. Maul (Groningen 1998) Book
Fs Diakonoff (aka Studies Diakonoff) Societies and Languages of the Ancient Near East Studies in Honour of I.M. Diakonoff
Fs Finkelstein Essays on the ancient Near East in memory of Jacob Joel Finkelstein, edited by Maria de Jong Ellis. (Hamden, Conn. 1977)
Fs Gaster (aka Gaster Festschrift) JANES 5
Fs Geers From Assurbanpal's Library Studies in Memory of F. W. Geers JNES 33/2-3 (1974) {pp 183-266?}
Fs Gordon Orient and Occident. Essays presented to Cyrus H. Gordon on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday., Edited by Harry A. Hoffner. Kevelaer, Butzon &amp; Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn, Neukirchener Verlag, 1973
Fs Greenfield Solving riddles and untying knots biblical, epigraphic, and Semitic studies in honor of Jonas C. Greenfield /, edited by Ziony Zevit, Seymour Gitin, Michael Sokoloff (Winona Lake, Ind. Eisenbrauns, 1995)
Fs Hallo (aka Studies Hallo) The Tablet and the scroll Near Eastern studies in honor of William W. Hallo, edited by Mark E. Cohen, Daniel C. Snell, David B. Weisberg (Bethesda, Md. CDL Press, 1993)
Fs Hewett So live the works of men seventieth anniversary volume honoring Edgar Lee Hewett, edited by Donald D. Brand and Fred E. Harvey (Albuquerque, N.M. University of New Mexico Press, 1939)
Fs Hilprecht Hilprecht anniversary volume. Studies in Assyriology and archaeology dedicated to Hermann V. Hilprecht upon the twenty-fifth anniversary of his doctorate and his fiftieth birthday (July 28), by his colleagues, friends and admirers (Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs, 1909)
Fs Jones Studies in honor of Tom B. Jones /, herausgegeben von Marvin A. Powell, Jr. und Ronald H. Sack (Kevelaer Butzon &amp; Bercker ; Neukirchen-Vluyn Neukirchener Verlag, 1979) = AOAT 203.
Fs Koschaker Festschrift Paul Koschaker mit Unterstützung der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin und der Leipziger Juristenfakultät, zum sechzigsten Geburtstag überreicht von seinen Fachgenossen (Weimar Böhlaus, 1939)
Fs Kraus (aka Studies Kraus) Zikir Shumim Assyriological Studies Presented to F.R. Kraus
Fs Larsen Assyria and Beyond Studies Presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen, edited by J. G. Dercksen (Nederlands Instituut voor het Nebije Oosten, 2004)
Fs Levine Ki Baruch Hu Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Judaic Studies in Honor of Baruch A. Levine
Fs Limet Tunca, Ö and S. Dehesell, Tablettes et images aux pays de Sumer et d'Akkad mélanges offerts &#133; Monsieur H. Limet Mémoires (Association pour la Promotion de l'Histoire et de l'Archéologie Orientales) 1. (Liege Université de Liege 1996)
Fs Matous B. Hruska, G. Komoróczy (eds.), Festschrift Lubor Matous (Budapest Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, &#211;kori Történeti Tanszekek, 1978)
Fs Moortgat Vorderasiatische Archäologie. Studien und Aufsätze. A. Moortgat zum 65. Geburtstag gewidmet (Berlin 1964)
Fs Moran (aka Studies Moran) Lingering over Words Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Literature in Honor of William L. Moran
Fs Oberhuber Im Bannkreis des Alten Orients Studien zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte des Alten Orients und seines Ausstrahlungsraumes Karl Oberhuber zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet /, herausgegeben von Wolfgang Meid und Helga Trenkwalder (Innsbruck Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1986)
Fs Oppenheim R. D. Biggs and J. A. Brinkman, eds. Studies Presented to A. Leo Oppenheim. (1964) The University of Chicago Press Book
Fs Reiner (aka Studies Reiner) Language, Literature, and History Philological and Historical Studies Presented to E. Reiner (= AOS 67)
Fs Rinaldi Studi sull'Oriente e la Bibbia offerti al p. Giovanni Rinaldi nel 60. compleanno da allievi, colleghi amici. Genova Studio e vita, 1967.
Fs Römer (aka Römer Festschrift) dubsar anta-men Studien zur Altorientalistik, Festschrift fur Willem H.Ph. Römer zur Vollendung seines 70. Lebensjahres mit Beitragen von Freunden, Schulern und Kollegen, AOAT 253
Fs Salonen Festschrift A. I. Salonen, StOr 46 (Amsterdam and Oxford 1976)
Fs Sigrist (aka Studies Sigrist) Piotr Michalowski, ed., On the Third Dynasty of Ur Studies in Honor of Marcel Sigrist, JCS SS 1. Boson, MA American Schools of Oriental Research, 2008.
Fs Sjöberg (aka Studies Sjöberg) DUMU E2-DUB-BA-A Studies in Honor of Å.W. Sjöberg
Fs Steve Fragmenta Historiae Aelamicae Mélanges Offerts à M-J. Steve. L. De Meyer, H. Gasche and F. Vallat, eds. Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations. Paris, 1986.
Fs Struve Drevnij mir, sbornik statej akademiku Vasiliju Vasil'evich Struve, Shakhov, F. 1964
FT (aka de Genouillac FT) H. de Genouillac, Fouilles de Telloh
FTP H.P. Martin et al, The Fara tablets in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2001
FTS S.N. Kramer, From the Tablets of Sumer
FuB (aka FB) Forschungen und Berichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin i957 ff.)
FuF Forschungen und Fortschritte (Berlin 1925-1967)
Fussbekleidung A. Salonen, Die Fussbekleidung der alten Mesopotamier &lt;= AASF 157)
FWG Fischer Weltgeschichte, vols. 2-4 Die Altorientalischen Reiche (Frankfurt a. Main 1965-1967)
GAG W. von Soden, Grundriss der Akkadischen Grammatik, Analecta Orientalia 33, Rome 1952; Ergänzungsheft mit Nachträgen, Analecta Orientalia 47, Rome 1969; 2d edition mit Ergänzungsheft, Analecta Orientalia 33/47, Rome 1969; 3d edition, Analecta Orientalia 33, Rome 1995
GBAO Göttinger Beiträge zum Alten Orient
GBT Geological Bulletin of Turkey (1947 ff.) Journal
GCBC Goucher College Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
GCCI (aka GC) R. P. Dougherty, Goucher College Cuneiform Inscriptions (New Haven 1923-33)
Geers Heft Unpublished volumes of copies of texts and fragments from the British Museum Kouyunjik collection.
GEN A. Shaffer, Sumerian Sources of Tablet XII of the Epic of Gilgamesh (Univ. of Pennsylvania, diss., 1963)
gen. genitive
Genava Bulletin du Musée d'Arts et d'Histoire de Genève (Genf 1923-1952); NS = nouvelle série (1953 ff.)
geogr. geographical (texts)
Gerión Gerión, Revista de Historia Antigua (Madrid 1983 ff.) Journal
Geschlechtsreife Geschlechtsreife und Legitimation zur Zeugung, ed. E.W. Muller
Getreide F. Hrozny, Das Getreide im alten Babylonien
GGL J. Marzahn, Die Grundlagen der Getreideproduktion in Lagash (unpublished)
Gilgamesh and Agga lit. comp.; S.N. Kramer, AJA 53 lff W. Römer AOAT 224ff.; H. Vanstiphout, Aula Or 5, 138ff
Gilgamesh and Huwawa A llt. comp.; ms. A. Shaffer; cf. S.N. Kramer, JCS 1, 3ff. and dupls.; line numbering after D.O. Edzard, ZA 81, 165ff.
Gilgamesh and Huwawa B lit. comp.; ms. A. Shaffer; line numbering after D.O. Edzard, BAW Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Sitzungsbericht 1993/4 16ff.
Gilgamesh and Huwawa Short Version lit. comp.; M. Ellis, AfO 28
Gilgamesh and the Bull of An lit. comp.; A. Cavigneaux, RA 87 (1993) 97-129

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CDLI contributors. (2025, October 30). Abbreviations. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. https://cdli.earth/abbreviations?page=8
CDLI contributors (2025) Abbreviations, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Available at: https://cdli.earth/abbreviations?page=8 (Accessed: October 30, 2025).
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