| Abbreviation | Fullform | Type | Publication |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA | Middle Assyrian | ||
| MAD | I.J. Gelb, Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary (Chicago 1952- 1970) | ||
| MAG | Mittelassyrische Gesetze | ||
| mag. | Magical | ||
| MAH | Museum siglum of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva | ||
| Malku | Akk. lex. series malku = sharru | ||
| MAM | A. Parrot, Mission archéologique de Mari, I (= BAH 65, 1956); II (= BAH 68- 70, 1958/59); III (= BAH 86, 1967) | ||
| Man and his God | lit. comp., S.N. Kramer, VT Suppl. 3; rev. ms. J. Klein | ||
| Manchester Memoirs | Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society | ||
| Manchester Tammuz | lit. comp.; B. Alster, Acta Sum 14, lff. | ||
| Mantique | A. Boissier, Mantique Babylonienne et Mantique Hittite (Paris 1935) | ||
| Manuel1 | Ch. Fossey, Manuel d'assyriologie, Bd. I Explorations et fouilles. Déchiffrement des cunéiformes. Origine et histoire de l'écriture (Paris 1904) | Book | |
| Manuel2 | Ch. Fossey, Manuel d'assyriologie, Bd. II Évolution des cunéiformes (Paris 1926) | ||
| MAO | G. Contenau, Manuel d'Archéologie Orientale (Paris 1927-47) | ||
| MAOG | Mitteilungen der Altorientalischen Gesellschaft | ||
| Maqlu | Knut L. Tallqvist, Die assyrische Beschwörungsserie Maqlu (1894) | ||
| MARI | Mari, Annales de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (Paris 1982 ff.) | ||
| Marriage of Mardu | lit. comp.; SEM 58; J. Klein, Sumerian Gods 110-116 | ||
| masc. | Masculine | ||
| math. | mathematical (texts) | ||
| MatKul | Izvestija Rossijskoj Akademii Istorii Material'noj Kul'tury | ||
| Maul Ershahunga | S.M. Maul, 'Herzberuhigungsklagen' Die sumerisch-akkadischen Ershahunga-Gebete | ||
| Mayr 1997 | R. Mayr, The Seal Impressions of Ur III Umma, Disseratation, 1997 | ||
| MB | Middle Babylonian | ||
| MBGT (aka MGBT) | lex. series; Middle Babylonian Grammatical Texts, MSL SS 1, 72-91 | ||
| MBI (aka Barton MBI) | G.A. Barton, Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions, I (New Haven 1918) | ||
| MBLETU | O. R. Gurney, The Middle Babylonian Legal and Economic Texts from Ur (British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1983) | ||
| MC | Mesopotamian Civilizations (Winona Lake, Indiana) | ||
| MC 3 (aka Adoption in Nippur) | E.C. Stone and D.I. Owen, Adoption in Old Babylonian Nippur and the Archive of Mannum-mesu-lissur (= MC 3) | ||
| MC 4 (aka LAT, Legal and Administrative Texts) | P. Steinkeller, with hand copies by J. N. Postgate, Third-Millennium Legal and Administrative Texts in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad (= MC 4) | ||
| MCAAS | Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences | ||
| MCS | Manchester Cuneiform Studies (Manchester 1951 ff.) | ||
| MCT | O. Neugebauer and A. Sachs, Mathematical Cuneiform Texts (= AOS 29) | ||
| MD | tablets in the collections of the Missionmuseum der Franziskaner zu Dorsten in Westfalen | ||
| MDAFA | Mémoires de la Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan (Paris) | Series | |
| MDAI (aka MDAIK, DAI) | Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abt. Kairo (Mainz 1956 ff.) | ||
| MDI | Memoires de la Delegation Archeologique en Iran | ||
| MDOG | Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-gesellschaft zu Berlin (Berlin 1898 ff.) | ||
| MDP | Mémoires de la Délégation en Perse (Paris 1900 ff.); Bd.29, 1943 ff. also cited as MDAI = Mémoires de la Délégation Archéologique en Iran | ||
| MEA | R. Labat, Manuel d'épigraphie akkadienne (6th ed. Paris 1988) | ||
| med. | Medical | ||
| Mediterr. Archaeol. Suppl. | Mediterranean Archaeology Supplement (Sydney 1990ff.) | Series | |
| MEE | Materiali epigrafici di Ebla (Naples 1979 ff.) | ||
| Meier Maqlu | G. Meier, Die assyrische Beschwörungssammlung Maqlû, Berlin 1937 | ||
| Meissner Supplement | B. Meissner, Supplement zu den assyrischen Wörterbüchern, Leiden 1898 | ||
| Melanges Birot | Miscellanea Babylonica Melanges offerts a Maurice Birot | ||
| Melanges Kupper | De la Babylonie a la Syrie, en passant par Mari Melanges offerts a Monsieur J.-R. Kupper a l'occasion de son 70e anniversaire | ||
| Melanges Limet | Tablettes et images aux pays de Sumer et d'Akkad Melanges offerts a Monsieur H. Limet, Association pour la Promotion de l'Histoire et de l'Archeologie Orientales Memoires no. 1 | ||
| Mem. Finkelstein | Essays on the Ancient Near East in Memory of J.J. Finkelstein (= MCAAS 19) | ||
| Menologies | S. Langdon, Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars | ||
| Menschenbild | G. Pettinato, Das altorientalische Menschenbild und die sumerischen und akkadischen Schöpfungsmythen | ||
| Mes (aka Mesop., Mesopotamia) | Mesopotamia. Rivista di Archeologia . . . (Turin 1966 ff.) | ||
| Mesag | S.J. Bridges, The Mesag archive A study of Sargonic society and economy (diss., Yale Univ., 1981) | ||
| Mesannepada | royal inscr.; Steible ABW 2, 272f. | ||
| Mesilim of Kish | royal inscr.; Steible ABW 2, 215ff. | ||
| Mesop. Law | M. Roth, Scholastic Tradition and Mesopotamian Law (diss., Univ. of Pennsylvania) | ||
| Mesopotamia | Revista di archeologia a cure del Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Turno per il Medio Oriente e l'Asia, University of Turin (Turin) | ||
| Mesopotamia (aka Mes.) | Mesopotamia. Copenhagen Studies in Assyriology (Copenhagen 1972 ff.) | ||
| Mesopotamien | E. Strommenger, Fünf Jahrtausende Mesopotamien, Aufnahmen von M. Hirmer (Munich 1962) | ||
| Message of Ludingirra | llt. comp.; M. Clvll, JNES 23, lff.; M. Cig and S.N. Kramer, Belleten 40, 403ff.; ms. Å.W. Sjöberg | ||
| Message of Ludingirra Ras Shamra | J. Nougayrol, Ugaritica 5,310ff.; rev. ms. Å.W. Sjöberg | ||
| MesZL | see MZL | ||
| Metal (aka Limet Métal, Travail du métal) | H. Limet, Le travail du metal au pays de Sumer au temps de la IIIe dynastie d'Ur (Brussels 1976) | ||
| MFA | Museum siglum of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | ||
| MHEM | Mesopotamian History and Environment, Mémoirs (1989ff.) | Series | |
| MHEO | Mesopotamian History and Environment Occasional Publications (1991ff.) | Series | |
| MHET | Mesopotamian History and Environment Texts | ||
| mill. | Millennium | ||
| MIO | Mitteilungen des Instituts für Orientforschung (Berlin 1953 ff.) | ||
| Mis pi | ritual series; ms. C.B.F. Walker | ||
| Misc. Assyrian Texts | S.A. Smith, Miscellaneous Assyrian Texts of the British Museum | ||
| MiscEbl | Miscellanea Eblaitica (= QuadSem 15 ff., 1988 ff.) | ||
| MJ (aka Museum Journal) | Museum Journal (Univ. Museum, Univ. of Pennsylvania) | ||
| MKT | O. Neugebauer, Mathematische Keilschrifttexte (Berlin 1936/37) | ||
| MLC | Morgan Library Collection, siglum of the Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven | ||
| MLVS | Mededeelingen uit de Leidsche Verzameling van Spijkerschrift-Inscripties (Amsterdam 1933-36) | ||
| MM | tablets in the collections of the Abbey of Montserrat (Barcelona) | ||
| MMA Guide | Crawford, Vaughn Emerson, et al., Ancient Near Eastern Art Guide To the Collections (New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966) | ||
| MMAJ | Metropolitan Museum of Art, Journal (New York/Turnhout 1968ff.) | Journal | |
| MMB | Bulletin of the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities / Medelhavsmuseet Bulletin (Stockholm 1961-1998) | ||
| MMEW (aka Mystical) | A. Livingstone, Mystical and Mythological Explanatory Works of Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (Oxford, 1986) | ||
| MMFM | Medelhavsmuseet. Focus on the Mediterranean (Stockholm 2004-) | ||
| MN | month name | ||
| mng. | meaning | ||
| Möbel (aka A. Salonen, Möbel) | A. Salonen, Die Möbel des alten Mesopotamien nach sumerisch-akkadischen Quellen (Helsinki 1963), (= AASF B 127) | ||
| Model Contracts | W. R. Bodine, How Mesopotamian scribes learned to write legal documents A study of Sumerian Model Contracts, 2014 | ||
| Mondgott (aka MNS) | A. Sjöberg, Der Mondgott Nanna-Suen | ||
| Monkey | letter; M. Powell, ZA 68, 168ff. | ||
| MonOT (aka Monuments) | I. M. Price et al, The Monuments and the Old Testament (Philadelphia 1958) | ||
| Moon-God | M. Hall, A Study of the Sumerian Moon-God, Nanna/Suen (diss., Univ. of Pennsylvania) | ||
| MP | Monuments et memoires publies par l'Academie des Inscriptions et des Belles-Lettres (Fondation Eugene Piot) | ||
| MPRL Proc | Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge, Proceedings | Series | |
| MRWH | H.P.H. Petschow, Mittelbabylonische Rechts- und Wirtschaftsurkunden der Hilprechtsammlung in Jena (Berlin 1974) | ||
| ms(s). | manuscript(s) | ||
| Msk. | Tablet siglum of texts from Meskene | ||
| MSKH (aka Brinkman MSKH) | J. A. Brinkman, Materials and Studies for Kassite History (Chicago 1976) | ||
| MSL | Materialien zum sumerischen Lexikon/Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon (Rom 1937 ff.); SS = Supplementary Series (1, 1986) | ||
| MSLF | S. Lieberman, Manual of Sumerian Legal Forms (unpubl. ms.) | ||
| MSS | Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft (Munich 1952 ff.) | ||
| MSVO | Materialien zu den frühen Schriftzeugnissen des Vorderen Orients (Berlin 1991 ff.) | ||
| MtHolyAQ | Mary Inda Hussey (1918) Babylonian Tablets from Mount Holyoke College. Concord, N.H. | ||
| MTT | Materialien zu Toponymie und Topographie (Collège de France) | Series | |
| MUL.APIN | MUL.APIN An Astronomical Compendium in Cuneiform. Hermann Hunger and David Pingree. AfO Beih. 24 (Horn, Austria, 1989) | ||
| Museum Monograph (aka UnivMusMonograph, UniversMusMonograph, University Museum Monograph) | Monograph of the Univ. Museum, Univ. of Pennsylvania | ||
| Musik | H. Hartmann, Die Musik der sumerischen Kultur (Frankfurt 1960) | ||
| MUSJ | Mélanges (de la Faculté Orientale) de l'Université Saint-Joseph (Beiruth 1906 ff.) | ||
| MVAG (aka MVAeG) | Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatischen (ab 1922 Vorderasiatisch-Agyptischen) Gesellschaft (Berlin/Leipzig 1896 ff.) | ||
| MVN | Materiali per il vocabulario neosumerico (Rom 1974 ff.) | ||
| MVS | Münchener vorderasiatische Studien (Munich/ Vienna 1977 ff.) | ||
| MW | tablets in the Missionshaus Werl in Westfalen | ||
| Mycenaean | Alexander Uchitel, Mycenaean and Near Eastern economic archives, 1985 | ||
| MZL | R. Borger, Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon (AOAT 305; Ugarit-Verlag 2003) |
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