Keywords Used by the RIBo "Babylon 6" Corpus

The catalogue of the RIBo "Babylon 6" 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:

nabû-mukin-apli [with or without a text number designation (1 and 2001 to 2005)]
marduk-zakir-šumi_i [with or without a text number designation (from 1 to 2 and 2001)]
nabû-šumu-lišir [with or without a text number designation (2001)]
marduk-šakin-šumi [with or without a text number designation (2002)]
eriba-marduk [with or without a text number designation (from 1 to 2)]
nabû-šuma-iškun [with or without a text number designation (1 and 2001)]
nabû-naṣir [with or without a text number designation (2001)]
marduk-apla-iddina_ii [with or without a text number designation (from 1 to 4 and 2001)]
sargon_ii [with or without a text number designation (from 1 to 6)]
sennacherib [with or without a text number designation (from 232 to 233)]
bel-ibni [with or without a text number designation (1)]
esarhaddon [with or without a text number designation (from 104 to 139, 1001 to 1004, and 1010)]
ashurbanipal_babylonian [with or without a text number designation (from 01 to 23 and 2001 to 2016)]
šamaš-šuma-ukin [with or without a text number designation (from 1 to 6 and 2001)]
aššur-etel-ilani [with or without a text number designation (from 2 to 6]
unknown(_neo_babylonian_ruler) [with or without a text number designation (from 2001 to 2005)]

Sample search: designation:esarhaddon_104.

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 many instances on this sub-project, the "popular name" is the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (Babylonian Periods) designation (format: RIMB 2 B.6.N.N). For the search to work, you must enter the full RIMB 2 designation. For example, to display Bel-ibni 1 you can search for "popular:B.6.26.1". In addition, there are a few names and terms are included in the "Popular" modern title of the compositions; some of these have been given to the composites by Neo-Babylonian specialists, in particular Rykle Borger. For example, the follow search options will yield results:

Assyrian "hieroglyphs"
Babylon (A to N)
Borsippa (A)
Nippur (A to D)
Uruk (A to G)

Collection (collection:)

Neo-Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions are housed in numerous museum collections around the world. The official texts of the period of the Uncertain Dynasties are found in the following collections:

Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
British Museum, London, UK
City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
Département des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
École Pratique des Hautes Études, IV^e Section, Paris, France
Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Hilprecht-Sammlung, Fr. Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Iran Bastan Museum, Teheran, Iran
Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California, USA
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
Nebuchadnezzar Museum, Babylon, Iraq
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Private Collection: Bach, Aachen, Germany
Private Collection: Ball, Unknown, UK
Private Collection: de Clercq, Paris, France
Private Collection: Foroughi, Teheran, Iran
Private Collection: Harper, Unknown, USA
Private Collection: Hirayama, Kamakura, Japan
Private Collection: Ligabue, Venice, Italy
Private Collection: Lord Binning of Mellerstain, Berwickshire, UK
Private Collection: Mazda, Teheran, Iran
Private Collection: Moore, Unknown
Private Collection: Unknown, Unknown
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
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 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:

1840-04-04,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1840-04-04,_0004
1851-01-01,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1851-01-01,_0276
1851-10-09,_ + 4 digits (+ letter); e.g., 1851-10-09,_0078r
1860-12-01,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1860-12-01,_0001
1880-06-17,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1880-06-17,_0002
1880-11-12,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1880-11-12,_0227
1881-02-01,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1881-02-01,_0038
1881-02-04,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1881-02-04,_0174
1881-03-24,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1881-03-24,_0367
1881-06-07,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1881-06-07,_0209
1881-06-25,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1881-06-25,_0266
1881-07-01,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1881-07-01,_0430
1881-07-06,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1881-07-06,_0210
1881-11-03,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1881-11-03,_0360
1882-03-23,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1882-03-23,_0055
1882-09-18,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1882-09-18,_2877
1883-01-21,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1883-01-21,_0164
1883-06-30,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1883-06-30,_0003
1893-10-14,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1893-10-14,_0050
1894-01-15,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1894-01-15,_0335
1898-10-11,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1898-10-11,_0020
1900-03-10,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1900-03-10,_0002
1915-04-10,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1915-04-10,_0003
1919-10-11,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1919-10-11,_4743
1924-09-20,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1924-09-20,_0250
1927-10-03,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1927-10-03,_0274
1929-10-12,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1929-10-12,_0502
1930-05-08,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1930-05-08,_0006
1935-01-13,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1935-01-13,_0009
1942-01-28,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1942-01-28,_0001
1945-10-13,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1945-10-13,_0076
1958-04-12,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1958-04-12,_0028
1979-12-18,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1979-12-18,_0016
12N + 3 digits; e.g., 12n-043
18N + 3 digits; e.g., 18n-000
1N-T + 4 digits; e.g., 1n-t0142
3N-T + 4 digits; e.g., 3n-t0840
4N-T + 4 digits; e.g., 4n-t0076
5N-T + 4 digits; e.g., 5n-t0703
6N-T + 4 digits; e.g., 6n-t1046
8N-T + 4 digits; e.g., 8n-t0003
9N-T + 4 digits; e.g., 9n-t0009
A_ + 5 digits; e.g., a_31310
A_Babylon_ + 3 digits; e.g., a_babylon_009
AH_1882-07-14,_ + 4 digits; e.g., ah_1882-07-14,_4442
Ash_1922. + 3 digits; e.g., ash_1922.181
Ash_1924. + 3 digits; e.g., ash_1924.640
Ash_1929. + 3 digits; e.g., ash_1929.136
Ash_1932. + 3 digits; e.g., ash_1932.652
AO_ + 5 digits; e.g., ao_25552
Ass_ + 5 digits; e.g., ass_08000
BE_ + 5 digits; e.g., be_12131
BM_ + 6 digits; e.g., bm_137345
Bu_1888-05-12, + 4 digits; e.g., bu_1888-05-12,_0120
CBS_ + 5 digits; e.g., cbs_16559
DT_ + 3 digits; e.g., dt_381
H- + 4 digits; e.g., h-5097
HE_ + 3 digits; e.g., he_144
HMA_9- + 5 digits; e.g., hma_9-01793
HS_ + 4 digits; e.g., hs_0042
IM_ + 6 digits; e.g., im_001081
Ist_B_ + 5 digits; e.g., ist_b_0065
Ist_EŞEM_ + 5 digits; e.g., ist_eşem_07893
K_ + 5 digits; e.g., k_06386
Ki_1904-10-09, + 4 digits; e.g., ki_1904-10-09,_0001
MAH_ + 5 digits; e.g., mah_15877
MMA_74.51. + 4 digits; e.g., mma_74.51.4426
MMA_86.11. + 3 digits; e.g., mma_86.11.277
NBC_ + 5 digits; e.g., nbc_11323
ND_ + 5 digits; e.g., nd_02090
PMA_F29-06- + 3 digits (+ letter); e.g., pma_f29-06-387a
PTS_ + 4 digits; e.g., pts_2253
Rm_3_ + 3 digits; e.g., rm_3_105
SM_1916.02. + 2 digits; e.g., sm_1916.02.01
Sp_2_ + 3 digits; e.g., sp_2_411
U_ + 5 digits (+ letter); e.g., u_18529b
UM_33-35- + 3 digits; e.g., um_33-35-191
UM_55-21- + 3 digits; e.g., um_55-21-384
UM_84-26- + 3 digits; e.g., um_84-26-007
UM_L-29- + 3 digits; e.g., um_l-29-635
VA_ + 5 digits (+ letter); e.g., va_14664m
Va_Bab_ + 5 digits (+ letter); e.g., va_bab_04054a
VAT_ + 5 digits; e.g., vat_14519
W_ + 5 digits (+ letter); e.g., w_20942
YBC_ + 5 digits; e.g., ybc_13510

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:

Nabû-mukin-apli
Marduk-zakir-šumi_I
Nabû-šumu-lišir
Marduk-šakin-šumi
Eriba-Marduk
Nabû-šuma-iškun
Nabû-naṣir
Marduk-apla-iddina_II
Sargon II
Sennacherib
Bel-ibni
Esarhaddon
Ashurbanipal
Šamaš-šuma-ukin
Aššur-etel-ilani
Unknown

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 "Neo-Babylonian" and "Neo-Assyrian."

Object Type (object_type:)

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

arrow head
bowl
brick
cone
cuboid_monument
cylinder
cylinder_seal
dagger
disk
door_socket
duck_weight
lion-head finial
mace_head
paving_stone
prism
situla
stele
tablet
uncertain
weight

Material Support (material:)

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

Provenance (provenience:)

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

Ashur
Babylon
Borsippa
Dūr-Kurigalzu
Kish
Luristan
Mê-Turran
Nimrud
Nippur
Sippar
uncertain
Ur
Uruk
Zalu Ab

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 6" Corpus', RIBo, Babylon 6: The Inscriptions of the Period of the Uncertain Dynasties, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2016 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/usingthebabylon6corpus/keywords/]