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NALK Th. Kwasman, Neo-Assyrian Legal Documents in the Kuyunjik
Collection of the British Museum (StP SM 14), Rome
NEA Near Eastern Archaeology
NEAEHL The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy
Land
NESE Neue Ephemeris für Semitische Epigraphik
NL H. W. F. Saggs, The Nimrud Letters (CTN 5), London, 1952–
2001
NMES Near and Middle East Series
NTOA Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus
NWL J. V. Kinnier Wilson, The Nimrud Wine Lists. A Study of Men and
Administration at the Assyrian Capital in the Eighth Century B.C.
(CTN 1), London, 1972
OAC Orientis Antiqui Collectanea
OBO Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis
OBO.SA Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Series Archaeologica
OiP Oriental institute Publications
OiS Oriental institute Seminars
OLA Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta
OLP Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica
Or NS Orientalia Nova Series
OrAnt Oriens Antiquus
OrOcc Oriens et Occidens
OTS Oudtestamentische Studiën
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
PiASH Proceedings of the israeli Academy of Sciences and
Humanities
PiHANS Publications de l’institut historique-archéologique Néerlandais
de Stamboul
PJB Palästina-Jahrbuch
PKG Propyläen Kunstgeschichte
PNA K. Radner – H. d. Baker (eds.), The Prosopography of the Neo-
Assyrian Empire i–iii, Helsinki 1998–
PSAS Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
RA Revue assyriologique
RAC Th. Klauser et al. (eds.), Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum,
1ff, Stuttgart, 1950ff
RAi Rencontre Assyriologique internationale
RB Revue Biblique
REI Revue des Études Islamiques