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List of AbbreviationsACh C. Virolleaud, L’Astrologie Chaldéene
AfO Archiv für Orientforschung (24 = H. Hunger, MUL.APIN)
AHw W. Von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch
AO tablets in the collections of the Musée du Louvre
BGP J. Black, A.R. George and N. Postgate, A Concise Dictionary of Ak-
kadian
BIN Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of J.B. Nies (4 = A.T. Clay,
Letters and Transactions from Cappadocia)
BM tablets in the collections of the British Museum
BPO Babylonian Planetary Omens (1 = E. Reiner and D. Pingree, The Ve-
nus Tablet of Ammisaduga)
CAD The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of
Chicago
CT Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum
CTN Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud
DT tablets from G. Smith’s 1873 expedition, now in the BM
HALOT L. Koehler and W. Baumgartner, Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the
Old Testament
HV hermeneutic variant
K tablets in the Kuyunjik collection of the British Museum