Using the "Babylon 5" Corpus

This page explains how to browse and search the "Babylon 5" Corpus, as well as how to use the associated glossaries. Unless otherwise noted, transliterations and translations of the texts in the corpus have been prepared by members of the OIMEA Project. They are released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.

You may find it helpful to read the Oracc user documentation [/doc/help/visitingoracc/index.html] before you start to explore RIBo for the first time. If your browser has problems displaying the special transliteration characters such as Š and š (Shin), Ṣ and ṣ (Tsade), and Ṭ and ṭ (Tet), then you may want to download Steve Tinney's Ungkam font [/doc/help/visitingoracc/fonts/index.html] for Mac, Windows, or Linux. If you are still having trouble viewing these characters, then you will need to correctly set the character encoding on your browser.

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Page View (corpus browser)

Like all other texts included in RIBo, the one text in this sub-corpus is regarded as a composite. Therefore, the inscription is listed by the ruler's name followed by a number designation. The pager also lists the text's Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (Babylonian Periods) designation, (assumed) provenance, and material support.

Item View (single tablets or composite texts)

The Item View shows the transliteration and translation of a composite text. Place the cursor over any word of the transliteration to see its outline glossary entry, and click on the word to go to its full glossary entry.

The left-hand sidebar gives the following information:

Names

The RIBo-assigned designation of the composite text.

Numbers

The Oracc Qcat [/qcat/] catalogue number (Q+unique six-digit identifier);

The RIBo-assigned designation of the composite text.

Views

[There are currently no other views available.]

Details

object type

period

provenance

genre

Searching

Because there is only one text included in this RIBo sub-corpus, there is no need to perform a catalogue (CAT) search and, therefore, no information is included here about searching the catalogue.

Printing

When you print a page, either in Page View or in Item View, the left-hand sidebar containing the search box and catalogue data is omitted.

Glossaries

For help with using the RIBo glossaries, please read the Oracc user documentation on glossaries [/doc/help/visitingoracc/glossaries/index.html].

Jamie Novotny

Jamie Novotny, 'Using the "Babylon 5" Corpus', RIBo, Babylon 5: The Inscriptions of the Elamite Dynasty, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2024 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon5/UsingtheBabylon5Corpus/]