The catalogue of the RIBo "Babylon 2" Corpus uses a standardized set of keywords to describe the designation, popular name, object type, material support, and provenance of each inscription. They are listed here to help you search RIBo effectively.
Note: Catalogue searches are not case sensitive.
Designation (designation:)
This is the RIBo-assigned designation of the composite text. At present, one can search the corpus using the following criteria:
- itti-marduk-balaṭu [with or without a text number designation (1)]
- ninurta-nadin-šumi [with or without a text number designation (1)]
- nebuchadnezzar_i [with or without a text number designation (from 01 to 11 and 1001)]
- enlil-nadin-apli [with or without a text number designation (1)]
- marduk-nadin-ahhe [with or without a text number designation (from 1 to 4 and 2001)]
- marduk-šapik-zeri [with or without a text number designation (from 1 to 3 and 2001)]
- adad-apla-iddina [with or without a text number designation (from 01 to 12 and 1001)]
- nabu-šumu-libur [with or without a text number designation (1)]
- unidentified [with or without a text number designation (from 1001 to 1002)]
Sample search: designation:adad-apla-iddina_09.
Genre (genre:)
The only genre search option for this project is "royal_inscription"; note that the search displays all of the texts in the corpus.
Popular Name (popular:)
Few terms are included in the "Popular" modern designation of the
compositions. In all instances on this sub-project, the "popular name" is the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (Babylonian Periods) designation (format: RIMB 2 B.2.N.N). For the search to work, you must enter the full RIMB 2 designation. For example, to display Nebuchadnezzar I 04 you can search for "popular:B.2.4.4".
Collection (collection:)
Middle and Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions are housed in numerous museum collections around the world. The official texts of the Second Dynasty of Isin are found in the following collections:
- Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
- British Museum, London, UK
- de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, Holland
- Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Iran Bastan Museum, Teheran, Iran
- Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California, USA
- Louvre Museum, Paris, France
- Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Private Collection: Foroughi, Teheran, Iran
- Private Collection: Williams, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Sample collection searches: "collection:british_museum", "collection:germany", "collection:philadelphia". Any word(s) in the above list will return search results.
Exemplars (Museum, Registration, and Excavation Numbers; exemplars:)
The catalogue of this RIBo sub-project combines museum, registration, and excavation numbers into a single catalogue entry to avoid cluttered "detail" information in the Item View of composite texts that are known from more than one exemplar. Therefore, when searching our corpus by one of these numbers, you should prefix your search with "exemplars:", rather than with "museum_no:" or "excavation_no:". The following exemplar options will yield search results:
- 1848-11-04,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1848-11-04,_0128
- 1881-11-03,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1881-11-03,_0512
- 1882-03-23,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1882-03-23,_2251
- 1882-05-22,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1882-05-22,_1800
- 1889-10-14,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1889-10-14,_0051
- 1898-05-14,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1898-05-14,_0113
- 1928-10-09,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1928-10-09,_0001
- 1932-05-14,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1932-05-14,_0001
- 1932-10-08,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1932-10-08,_0008
- 2N-T + 4 digits; e.g., 2n-t0483
- 79-B- + 2 digits; e.g., 79-b-13
- 9N-T + 4 digits; e.g., 9n-t0099
- A_ + 5 digits; e.g., a_03647
- AO_ + 5 digits; e.g., a_14055
- Ash_1924. + 4 digits; e.g., ash_1924.0634
- Ash_1930. + 4 digits; e.g., ash_1930.0039
- BE_ + 5 digits; e.g., be_59431
- BM_ + 6 digits; e.g., bm_123061
- CBS_ + 5 digits; e.g., cbs_17244
- D + 4 digits; e.g., d1513
- FMNH_ + 6 digits; e.g., fmnh_156011
- HMR_ + 3 digits; e.g., hmr_342
- IB_ + 4 digits (+ letter); e.g., ib_0148a
- IM_ + 6 digits; e.g., im_078551
- Ist_B_ + 4 digits (+ letter); e.g., ist_b_0230a
- K_ + 5 digits; e.g., k_18603
- L_ + 5 digits; e.g., l_07084
- LB_ + 4 digits; e.g., lb_1530
- M_ + 2 digits + . (period) 2 digits + . (period) 3 digits; e.g., m_76.97.498
- Rm_ + 4 digits; e.g., rm_0255
- ROM_ + 3 digits + . (period) 3 digits + . (period) 3 digits; e.g., rom_938.035.000
- Sm_ + 4 digits; e.g., sm_0397
- Sp_2_ + 3 digits; e.g., sp_2_524
- U_ + 5 digits; e.g., u_07818
- VA_ + 5 digits; e.g., va_02577
- VAT_ + 5 digits; e.g., va_15584
- W_ + 5 digits; e.g., e.g. w_23556
Note: If you do not know the exact number, you can simply search by the museum, registration, or excavation number prefix; e.g., "exemplars:va_bab" or "exemplars:a_babylon".
Ruler (ruler:)
One can search the corpus by using one of the following ruler options:
- Itti-Marduk-balaṭu
- Ninurta-nadin-šumi
- Nebuchadnezzar I
- Enlil-nadin-apli
- Marduk-nadin-ahhe
- Marduk-šapik-zeri
- Adad-apla-iddina
- Nabu-šumu-libur
- Uncertain
Language (language:)
The only language search options for this project are "akkadian" and "sumerian."
Period (period:)
The only period search options for this project are "Middle Babylonian," "Neo-Babylonian," and "Neo-Assyrian."
Object Type (object_type:)
One can search the corpus by using one of the following object options:
- bead
- brick
- cone
- cylinder
- dagger
- duck_weight or weight or duck
- hatchet
- kudurru or boundary_stone
- tablet
- uncertain
Material Support (material:)
The only valid support search options are "clay," "metal," and "stone."
Provenance (provenience:)
Currently, there are thirteen provenance search options. These are:
- Babylon
- Isin
- Khorsabad
- Kish
- Larsa
- Luristan
- Nimrud
- Nineveh
- Nippur
- Sippar
- uncertain
- Ur
- Uruk
Glossary Abbreviations
Parts of Speech
The following abbreviations for parts of speech are used in the glossaries:
| Abbreviation | Explanation |
| AJ | Adjective (including stative forms) |
| AV | Adverb |
| CNJ | Conjunction |
| DET | Determinative pronoun |
| DP | Demonstrative pronoun |
| IP | Independent/anaphoric prounoun |
| J | Interjection |
| MA | Modal adverb |
| MOD | Modal, negative, or conditional |
| N | Noun (including Akkadian stative forms) |
| NU | Number |
| O | Other |
| PP | Possessive pronoun |
| PRP | Preposition |
| QP | Interrogative pronoun |
| REL | Relative pronoun |
| RP | Reflexive/reciprocal pronoun |
| SBJ | Subordinating conjunction |
| V | Verb |
| XP | Indefinite pronoun |
Types of Proper Noun
The following abbreviations for proper nouns are used in the glossaries:
| AN | Agricultural (locus) name |
| CN | Celestial name |
| DN | Divine name |
| EN | Ethnos name |
| FN | Field name |
| GN | Geographical name |
| MN | Month name |
| ON | Object name |
| PN | Personal name |
| RN | Royal name |
| SN | Settlement name |
| TN | Temple name |
| WN | Watercourse name |
| YN | Year name |