Almost all of the letters of Sargon's correspondence with his top officials are now housed in the British Museum's Department of the Middle East. Museum numbers are typically in two parts: the siglum, which identifies the collection to which a tablet belongs or the date on which a group of tablets was entered into the museum's registers (accessioned); and a continuous count of the tablets in each collection or accession group.
| Siglum | Meaning |
| 79-7-8 | Tablets accessioned by the British Museum on 8 July 1879 |
| 80-7-19 | Tablets accessioned by the British Museum on 19 July 1880 |
| 81-2-4 | Tablets accessioned by the British Museum on 4 February 1881 |
| 81-7-27 | Tablets accessioned by the British Museum on 27 July 1881 |
| 82-3-23 | Tablets accessioned by the British Museum on 23 March 1882 |
| 82-5-22 | Tablets accessioned by the British Museum on 22 May 1882 |
| 83-1-18 | Tablets accessioned by the British Museum on 18 January 1883 |
| 91-5-9 | Tablets accessioned by the British Museum on 9 May 1891 |
| AO | Tablets in the Département des Antiquités Orientales, Musée du Louvre |
| BM | Tablets in the collection of the British Museum |
| Bu 89-4-26 | Tablets acquired by Wallace Budge and accessioned by the British Museum on 26 April 1889 |
| Bu 91-5-9 | Tablets acquired by Wallace Budge and accessioned by the British Museum on 9 May 1891 |
| DT | Tablets collected on an expedition funded by the Daily Telegraph for the British Museum |
| EPHE | Tablets in the collection of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris |
| IM | Tablets in the collection of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad |
| K | Tablets from Kouyunjik (Nineveh) in the collection of the British Museum |
| Ki 1904-10-9 | Tablets acquired by Leonard King and accessioned by the British Museum on 9 October 1904 |
| N III | Tablets in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris |
| ND | Tablets excavated at Nimrud (excavation number) |
| Rm | Tablets collected by Hormuzd Rassam for the British Museum |
| Sm | Tablets collected by George Smith for the British Museum |
| Th 1905-4-9 | Tablets collected by Reginald Campbell Thompson and accessioned by the British Museum on 9 April 1905 |
| Th 1932-12-12 | Tablets collected by Reginald Campbell Thompson and accessioned by the British Museum on 12 December 1932 |
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