Object Signatures

When the same signature is used for more than one group, the first group in this list is meant unless otherwise indicated. For example, “A” always means the Asiatic collection of the Oriental Institute unless stated otherwise.

A 1) Asiatic collection of the Oriental Institute, Chicago 2) A collection of the Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul AM Prefix for excavation numbers at Tell Amarna, Syria AnAr Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi, Ankara AO Collection of Antiquités Orientales of the Musée du Louvre, Paris Ash Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Ass Prefix for excavation numbers from the German excavations at A ur BCM The City of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery BE Prefix for excavation numbers from the German excavations at Babylon BLMJ Lands Museum, BM British Museum, London D Prefix for excavation/registration number from the American excavations at Samaria D Prefix for excavations numbers from the Oriental Institute (Chicago) excavations at D r- arrukn (Khorsabad) DT Daily Telegraph collection of the British Museum, London Erm Hermitage, St. Petersburg E Eki ark Eserleri Müzesi of the Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul FMB Bodmer Museum, Cologny IAA Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem IM Iraq Museum, Baghdad K Kuyunjik collection of the British Museum, London KH Prefix for excavation numbers from the Italian excavations at Carchemish LB F.M.Th. de Liagre Böhl Collection, Leiden M National Museum, Aleppo MAH Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva MMA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York MS Martin Schøyen collection, Oslo N 1) collection number of the Louvre, Paris 2) Layard collection of the British Museum, London Nap. III Napoleon III; collection number of the Louvre, Paris ND Prefix for excavation numbers from the British excavations at Nimrud P Museo delle Antichità Egizie, Turin PT Prefix for excavation numbers for objects found on the Persepolis terrace by the Oriental Institute expedition Rm H. Rassam collection of the British Museum, London ROM Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Sm G. Smith collection of the British Museum, London T Prefix for excavation number from the American excavations at Tell Tayinat UM University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia VA Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin VA Ass A ur collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin VAT 1) Tablets in the collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin 2) Prefix for objects in the Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Rome W Prefix for excavations numbers from the German excavations at Uruk/Warka YBC Babylonian Collection of the Yale University Library, New Haven