| AO | Musée du Louvre, Paris. Antiquités orientales. (Followed by catalogue number). |
| AOF | Archiv für Orientforschung (Berlin, 1923--). |
| AOR | Archiv Orientální (Prague, 1928--). |
| AS | Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Assyriological Studies (Chicago, 1931--). |
| AS No. 10 | Kramer, Samuel N. Gilgamesh and the huluppu-tree (1938). |
| AS No. 11 | Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Sumerian king list (1939). |
| AS No. 12 | Kramer, Samuel N. Lamentation over the destruction of Ur (1940). |
| ASKT | Haupt, Paul. Akkadische und sumerische Keilschrifttexte (Leipzig, 1881-1882). |
| ATU | Altorientalische Texte und Untersuchungen, ed. by Bruno Meissner (Leiden, 1916--). |
| BA | Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft, edited by P. Haupt and F. Delitzsch (Baltimore and Leipzig, 1890-1927). |
| BASOR | Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (Baltimore, 1919--). |
| BE | The Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A: Cuneiform texts, ed. by H. V. Hilprecht (Philadelphia, 1893-1914). |
| BE XXIX | Radau, Hugo. Sumerian hymns and prayers to god Nin-ib, from the temple library of Nippur (1911). |
| BE XXXI | Langdon, Stephen H. Historical and religious texts from the temple library of Nippur (1914). |
| BBI | Barton, George A. Miscellaneous Babylonian inscriptions (New Haven, 1918--). |
| BL | Langdon, Stephen H. Babylonian liturgies (Paris, 1913). |
| CBS | Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. Catalogue of the Babylonian section. (Followed by number.) All CBS numbers listed in the notes are still unpublished. |
| CT | British Museum. Cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets . . . in the British Museum (London, 1896--). |
| GSG | Poebel, Arno. Grundzüge der sumerischen Grammatik (Rostock, 1923). |
| HAV | Radau, Hugo. "Miscellaneous texts from the temple library of Nippur," in Hilprecht anniversary volume (Leipzig, 1909):374-457. |
| HRETA | Nies, J. B., and C. E. Keiser. Historical, religious, and economic texts and antiquities (New Haven, 1920). |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Society (Boston, etc., 1849--). |
| JRAS | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1834-). |
| K | British Museum. Kouyunjik collection. (Followed by catalogue number.) |
| KAR | Ebeling, Erich. Keilschrifttexte aus Assur religiösen Inhalts (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, Bd. 28, Heft 1-4, and Bd. 34, Heft 1--; Leipzig, 1919--). |
| KGV | Abel, L., and H. Winkler. Keilschrifttexte zum Gebrauch bei Vorlesungen (Berlin, 1890). |
| MVAG | Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatisch-aegyptische Gesellschaft (Berlin, 1896-1908; Leipzig, 1909--). |
| Ni | Asari atika müzeleri (Museum of the Ancient Orient), Istanbul. Nippur collection. (Followed by catalogue number.) All Ni numbers listed in the notes will be published in SLTN. |
| OECT | Oxford editions of cuneiform texts (London, 1923--). |
| OECT I | Langdon, Stephen H. Sumerian and Semitic religious and historical texts (London, 1923). |
| PBS | Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. Publications of the Babylonian section (Philadelphia, 1911--). |
| PBS I 1 | Myhrman, David W. Babylonian hymns and prayers (1911). |
| PBS 1 2 | Lutz, Henry F. Selected Sumerian and Babylonian texts (1919). |
| PBS IV I | Poebel, Arno. Historical texts (1914). |
| PBS V | Poebel, Arno. Historical and grammatical texts (1914). |
| PBS VI 1 | Poebel, Arno. Grammatical texts (1914). |
| PBS X 1 | Langdon, Stephen H. Sumerian epic of paradise, the flood, and the fall of man (1915). |
| PBS X 2 | Langdon, S. H. Sumerian liturgical texts (1917). |
| PBS X 4 | Langdon, S. H. Sumerian liturgies and psalms (1919). |
| PBS XII | Langdon, S. H. Sumerian grammatical texts (1917). |
| PBS XIII | Legrain, Leon. Historical fragments (1922). |
| PRAK | Genouillac, Henri de. Premières recherches archéologiques à Kich (2 vols.; Paris, 1924-1925). |
| R | Rawlinson, Sir Henry. The cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia (5 vols.; London, 1861-1884; vol. 4, 2d ed., 1891). |
| RA | Revue d'assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale (Paris, 1884--). |
| SAK | Thureau-Dangin, François. Die sumerischen und akkadischen Königsinschriften (Leipzig, 1907). |
| SBH | Reisner, George A. Sumerisch-babylonische Hymnen nach Thontafeln griechischer Zeit (Berlin, 1896). |
| SEM | Chiera, Edward. Sumerian epics and myths (Oriental Institute publications XV; Chicago, 1934). |
| SL | Kramer, Samuel N. "Sumerian literature," in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 85.293-323, 1942. |
| SLTN | Kramer, Samuel N. Sumerian literary texts from Nippur in the Museum of the Ancient Orient (to appear in the near future under the auspices of the American School of Oriental Research at Bagdad and the American Council of Learned Societies). |
| SRT | Chiera, Edward. Sumerian religious texts (Crozer Theological Seminary. Babylonian publications I; Upland, Pa., 1924). |
| STVC | Chiera, Edward. Sumerian texts of varied contents (Oriental Institute publications XVI; Chicago, 1934). |
| TRS | Genouillac, Henri de. Textes religieux sumériens du Louvre, Tomes I-II (Musée du Louvre, Department des antiquités orientales, Textes cunéiformes, Tomes XV-XVI; Paris, 1930). |
| U | Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania to Mesopotamia. Ur collection. (Followed by catalogue number.) |
| VS | Staatliche Museen, Berlin. Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler (Leipzig, 1907--). |
| VS II | Zimmern, Heinrich. Sumerische Kultlieder aus altbabylonischer Zeit, 1. Reihe (1912). |
| VS X | Zimmern, Heinrich. Sumerische Kultlieder aus altbabylonischer Zeit, 2. Reihe (1913). |
| VAT | Staatliche Museen, Berlin. Tontafelsammlung, Vorderasiatische Abteilung. (Followed by catalogue number.) |
