Keywords Used by the RIBo "Babylon 7" Corpus

The catalogue of the RIBo "Babylon 7" Corpus (see pager [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon7/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:

nabopolassar [with or without a text number designation (from 01 to 15)]
amel-marduk [with or without a text number designation (from 01 to 06)]
neriglissar [with or without a text number designation (from 01 to 09)]

Sample search: "designation:neriglissar_09".

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:)

A wide variety of names and terms are included in the "Popular" modern title of the compositions. In most instances, these have been given to the composites by Neo-Babylonian specialists, in particular Rocío Da Riva and Hanspeter Schaudig. For example, the following search options will yield results:

Arahtu
Babylon
Campaign
Cilicia
E-PA-GIN-tila
Esagil
Etemenanki
Euphrates
Imgur-Enlil
Larsa
Libil-hegalla
Nemed-Enlil
Palace
Susa
Temple
Vase
Ziggurrat

Alternatively, one could search the inscriptions using Da Riva's letter+number designations; e.g., "popular:C11/A".

Collection (collection:)

Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions are housed in numerous museum collections around the world. The official texts of Nabopolassar, Amēl-Marduk, and Neriglissar are found in the following collections:

Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
British Museum, London, UK
de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, Holland
Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Nebuchadnezzar Museum, Babylon, Iraq
Private collection: anonymous, Berlin, Germany
Private collection: F.S. Clark, Mayfield, UK
Saint Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Trinity College, Cambridge, UK
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:)

In place of having separate fields for museum, registration, and excavation numbers, the RIBo catalogue uses only a single catalogue field ("exemplars") for this data. 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:

1876-11-17,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1876-11-17,_2293
1881-02-01,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1881-02-01,_0037
1882-03-23,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1882-03-23,_1836
1886-07-20,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1886-07-20,_0001
1898-05-14,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1898-05-14,_0081
1915-12-11,_ + 4 digits; e.g., 1915-12-11,_0001
A_Babylon_ + 3 digits; e.g., a_babylon_006
AH_1882-07-14,_ + 4 digits; e.g., ah_1882-07-14,_4461
ANE. + 2 digits + . (dot) + 4 digits; e.g., ane.39.1902
BE_ + 5 digits; e.g., be_14940
BM_ + 6 digits; e.g., bm_091090
CBS_ + 5 digits; e.g., cbs_09090
IM_ + 6 digits; e.g., im_124170
Ist_EŞEM_ + 5 digits; e.g., ist_eşem_12345
L. + 2 digits + . (dot) + 3 digits; e.g., l.74.007
LB_ + 4 digits; e.g., lb_2124
Sb_ + 5 digits; e.g., sb_12042
SPL_ + W_ + number + / + number; e.g., spl_w_2/8
VA_ + 5 digits; e.g., va_05952
VA_Bab_ + 5 digits; e.g., va_bab_00629
YBC_ + 5 digits; e.g., ybc_02309

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:

Nabopolassar
Amel-Marduk
Neriglissar

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 option for this project is "Neo-Babylonian"; note that the search displays all of the texts in the corpus.

Object Type (object_type:)

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

brick
cylinder
paving_stone
vase

Material Support (material:)

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

Provenance (provenience:)

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

babylon
larsa
sippar
susa
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 pronoun
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 7" Corpus', RIBo, Babylon 7: The Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2016 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon7/usingthebabylon7corpus/keywords/]