Using the Sūḫu Corpus

This page explains how to browse and search the Sūḫu Corpus, as well as how to use the associated glossaries. Unless otherwise noted, the compositions transliterated and translated for 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 Sūḫu for the first time. If your browser has problems displaying the special transliteration characters such as Š and š (Shin), Ṣ and ṣ (Sade), 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're still having trouble viewing these characters, then you'll need to correctly set the character encoding on your browser.

On Firefox, go to the Character Encoding item on the View menu and choose Unicode (UTF-8).
On Google Chrome, go to the Encoding item on the View menu and choose Unicode (UTF-8).
On Internet Explorer, go to the Encoding item on the View menu and choose Unicode (UTF-8).
On Safari, go to the Text Encoding item on the View menu and choose Unicode (UTF-8).

Page View (corpus browser)

All of the texts in the corpus are regarded as composites, even if they are known only from a single source/exemplar. Therefore, the inscriptions included in this sub-project are listed by the ruler's name followed by a number designation; for example, "Šamaš-reša-uṣur 1" or "Ninurta-kudurri-uṣur 01." 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);

Museum Number;

Excavation Number;

The RIBo assigned designation of the composite text.

Views

[There are currently no other views available.]

Details

Searching

At present, in this RIBo sub-corpus, you can restrict catalogue (CAT) searches to the following fields by entering the field name followed by a colon and then what you are searching for, with no space between:

Designation - e.g., designation:šamaš-reša-uṣur_1
Museum collection - e.g., collection:iraq_museum
Exemplars (Museum, Registration, and Excavation Numbers) - e.g., exemplars:im_124199
Genre - e.g., genre:royal_inscription
Popular Name - e.g., popular:rimb_2_s.0.1001.2
Ruler - e.g., ruler:Šamaš-reša-uṣur
Language - e.g., language:akkadian
Period - e.g., period:Neo-Babylonian
Object Type - e.g., object_type:stele
Material Support - e.g., material:stone
Provenance - e.g., provenience:Babylon (note US spelling)

Catalogue searches are not case sensitive.

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 Sūḫu Corpus', Suhu: The Inscriptions of Suhu online Project, The Suhu Inscriptions Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2024 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/suhu/UsingtheSuhuCorpus/]