The catalogue of the RINAP 5 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 RINAP effectively.
Note: Catalogue searches are not case sensitive.
Designation (designation:)
This is the RINAP-assigned designation of the composite text. At present, one can search the corpus using the following criteria:
- ashurbanipal [with or without a text number designation (from 001 to 058 and 2001 to 2016)]
- ashurbanipal_babylonian [with or without a text number designation (from 01 to 23)]
- ashurbanipal_tablet [with or without a text number designation (from 01 to 04)]
- aššur-etel-ilani [with or without a text number designation (1)]
- aššur-etel-ilani_babylonian [with or without a text number designation (from 1 to 5)]
- sin-šarra-iškun [with or without a text number designation (from 01 to 20)]
Sample search: designation:ashurbanipal_tablet_02.
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 some instances on this sub-project, the "popular name" is the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (Babylonian Periods) designation (format: RIMB 2 B.6.32.N or RIMB 2 B.6.35.N). For the search to work, you must enter the full RIMB 2 designation. For example, to display Ashurbanipal Babylonian 1 you can search for "popular:B.6.32.1". For example, the follow search options will yield results:
- Epigraph
- Large_Egyptian_Tablets
- Mullissu Inscription
- Nabû_Inscription
- Prism_A
Collection (collection:)
Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions are housed in numerous museum collections around the world. The official texts ofAshurbanipal and his successors are found in the following collections:
- Arkeoloji Müzerleri, Istanbul, Turkey
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
- Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
- British Museum, London, UK
- City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
- Civico Museo Archeologico Paolo Giovio, Como, Italy
- Couvent Saint-Étienne, Jerusalem, Israel
- de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, Holland
- Département des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
- Diözesanmuseum, Breslau, Poland
- École Biblique et Archéologique Française, Jerusalem
- Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
- Hilprecht-Sammlung, Fr. Schiller University, Jena, Germany
- Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq
- Louvre Museum, Paris, France
- McGill University Ethnological Collections, Montreal, Quebec Province, Canada
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
- Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
- Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, Belgium
- Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Rome, Italy
- National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
- Nebuchadnezzar Museum, Babylon, Iraq
- Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Private Collection: de Clercq, Paris, France
- Private Collection: Harper, Unknown, USA
- Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, Holland
- Schøyen Collection, Oslo, Norway
- Seminar für Assyriologie, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Semitic Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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 RINAP 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:".
- 1929-10-12, + _4 digits; e.g. 1929-10-12,_0650. This format applies to many British Museum registration numbers. Searches for the follow numbers + ,_ + 4 digits will yield results: 1848-11-04, 1851-09-02, 1851-10-09, 1856-09-09, 1866-05-19, 1876-11-17, 1879-07-08, 1880-06-17, 1880-07-19, 1881-02-01, 1881-02-04, 1881-03-24, 1881-07-27, 1881-11-03, 1882-03-23, 1882-05-22, 1882-07-14, 1882-09-18, 1883-01-18, 1883-01-21, 1883-06-30, 1894-01-15, 1897-05-16, 1898-02-16, 1898-10-11, 1900-03-10, 1901-10-12, 1905-07-08, 1913-04-16, 1919-10-11, 1922-08-12, 1924-09-20, 1926-02-15, 1927-10-03, 1929-10-12, 1930-05-08, 1932-12-10, 1932-12-12, 1933-10-13, 1935-01-13, 1979-12-18, 1979-12-20, 1983-01-01.
- 18N + 3 digits; e.g., 18n-000
- 3N-T + 4 digits; e.g., 3n-t0840
- 5N-T + 4 digits; e.g., 5n-t0703
- A_ + 5 digits; e.g., a_08110
- A_Babylon_ + 3 digits; e.g., a_babylon_009
- A. + 4 digits + 1981; e.g. a.0568_1981
- Ash_1922. + 3 digits; e.g., ash_1922-181
- Ash_1924. + 3 digits; e.g., ash_1924.627
- AO_ + 5 digits; e.g., ao_19904
- Ass_ + 5 digits; e.g., ass_00825
- BE_ + 5 digits; e.g., be_38075
- Bibnat_ + 4 digits; e.g., bibnat_5929
- BM_ + 6 digits; e.g., bm_124794
- Bu_1889-04-26, + 4 digits; e.g., bu_1889-04-26,_0144
- Bu_1891-05-09, + 4 digits; e.g., bu_1891-05-09,_0139
- CBS_ + 5 digits; e.g., cbs_16558
- DT_ + 3 digits; e.g., dt_145
- EBAJ+ + 3 digits; e.g., ebaj_131
- H- + 4 digits; e.g., h-5097
- HMA_9- + 5 digits; e.g., hma_9-01774
- HS_ + 4 digits; e.g., hs_1958
- IM_ + 6 digits; e.g., im_011528
- Ist_A_ + 5 digits; e.g., ist_a_00647
- Ist_EŞEM_ + 5 digits; e.g., ist_eşem_06332
- K_ + 5 digits; e.g., k_14981
- Ki_1902-05-10, + 4 digits; e.g., ki_1902-05-10,_0022
- Ki_1904-10-09, + 4 digits; e.g., ki_1904-10-09,_0363
- LB+ + 4 digits; e.g., lb_1315
- MAH_ + 5 digits; e.g., mah_16514
- MMA_86.11. + 3 digits; e.g., mma_86.11.413
- MRAH_O. + 4 digits; e.g., mrah_o.0782
- MS_ + 4 digits; e.g., ms_2180
- NBC_ + 5 digits; e.g., nbc_06070
- ND_ + 5 digits; e.g., nd_04306
- PMA_F29-06- + 3 digits (+ letter); e.g., pma_f29-06-387a
- PTS_ + 4 digits; e.g., pts_2253
- Rm + 4 digits; e.g., rm_1093
- Rm_2_ + 3 digits; e.g., rm_2_081
- Rm_3_ + 3 digits; e.g., rm_3_011
- RMO_ + 4 digits; e.g., rmo_5468
- SE_ + 3 digits; e.g., se_156
- Sm_ + 4 digits; e.g., sm_1888
- SM_1890.03. + 3 digits; e.g., sm_1890.03.007
- Th_1905-04-09, + 4 digits; e.g., th_1905-04-09,_0195
- TM_1931-2_ + 2 digits; e.g., tm_1931-2,_11
- U_ + 5 digits (+ letter); e.g., u_02757
- UM_33-35- + 3 digits (+ letter); e.g., um_33-35-191b
- UM_55-21- + 3 digits; e.g., um_55-21-384
- UM_84-26- + 3 digits; e.g., um_84-26-012
- UM_L-29- + 3 digits; e.g., um_l-29-632
- VA_ + 5 digits (+ letter); e.g., va_04332
- VA_Ass_ + 5 digits (+ letter); e.g., va_ass_03285
- Va_Bab_ + 5 digits (+ letter); e.g., va_bab_01973
- VAT_ + 5 digits; e.g., vat_17108
- VM_ + 5 digits; e.g., vm_14985
- W-B_ + 3 digits; e.g., w-b_190
- W_ + 5 digits (+ letter); e.g., w_20942
- YBC_ + 5 digits; e.g., ybc_07133
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:bm".
Ruler (ruler:)
One can search the corpus by using one of the following ruler options:
- Ashurbanipal
- Aššur-etel-ilani
- Sin-šarra-iškun
Language (language:)
The only language search options for this project are "akkadian" and "sumerian."
Period (period:)
The only period search option for this project is "Neo-Assyrian."
Object Type (object_type:)
One can search the corpus by using one of the following fifteen object options:
- block
- brick
- bulla
- cone
- cylinder
- disk
- door_socket
- drum-shaped_object
- mace_head
- paving_stone
- prism
- stele
- tablet
- wall_slab
- wall_slab_(with_reliefs)
Material Support (material:)
The only valid support search options are "clay" and "stone."
Provenance (provenience:)
Currently, there are thirteen provenance search options. These are:
- Ashur
- Babylon
- Babylonia
- Borsippa
- Calah
- Dūr-Kurigalzu
- Mê-Turran
- 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 |