Keywords Used by the RIBo "Babylon 3" Corpus

The catalogue of the RIBo "Babylon 3" 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:

simbar-šipak [with or without a text number designation (from 1 to 3)]
kaššû-nadin-ahhe [with or without a text number designation (1)]

Sample search: designation:simbar-šipak_2.

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.3.N.N). For the search to work, you must enter the full RIMB 2 designation. For example, to display Eulmaš-šakin-šumi 1 you can search for "popular:B.3.1.1".

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 the Sealand are found in the following collections:

Archaeological Museum, Tabriz, Iran
British Museum, London, UK
Private Collection: Adam, London, UK
Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

Sample collection searches: collection:british_museum, collection:usa, collection:london. 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:

1883-01-21,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1883-01-21,_0116
Adam_ + 225A; e.g., Adam_225a
BM_ + 6 digits; e.g., bm_082953
SMUI_ + 2 digits + . (period) 2 digits + . (period) +) 4 digits; e.g., SMUI_13.14.1729
Tabriz_ + - (hyphen); e.g., Tabriz_-
UIOM_ + 4 digits; e.g., UIOM_2499

Note: If you do not know the exact number, you can simply search by the museum, registration, or excavation number prefix; e.g., "exemplars:bm".

Ruler (ruler:)

One can search the corpus by using one of the following ruler options:

Simbar-Šipak
Kaššû-nadin-ahhe

Language (language:)

The only language search option for this project is "akkadian"; note that the search displays all of the texts in the corpus.

Period (period:)

The only period search options for this project are "Middle Babylonian" and "Neo-Babylonian."

Object Type (object_type:)

One can search the corpus by using one of the following object options:

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dagger
tablet

Material Support (material:)

The only valid support search options are "clay" and "metal."

Provenance (provenience:)

Currently, there are five provenance search options. These are:

luristan
uncertain

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

Jamie Novotny

Jamie Novotny, 'Keywords Used by the RIBo "Babylon 3" Corpus', RIBo, Babylon 3: The Inscriptions of the Second Dynasty of the Sealand, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2016 [/ribo/babylon3/UsingtheBabylon3Corpus/Keywords/]