his temple, 471, 472, 552
Bêl-rêṣuā, Belshazzar’s servant, 447
Bêl-šarra-bulliṭ, agent of Nabonidus and Belshazzar, 450
Bêl-šarra-uṣur, chief of a Median province, 367
Bel-shamin worshipped at Haran, 203
Belshazzar (Bêl-šarra-uṣur), son of Nabonidus, 414;
was he descendant of Nebuchadnezzar? 339, 407;
as crown prince, 412, 447 ff.;
in Akkad, 412, 449;
his position, 414;
though heir to the throne, 447; never mentioned as king, 419;
a sale of clothes, 449;
his appointment of Daniel, 419;
a letter apparently from, 538;
his death, 417-419
Bêl-šum-iškun, father of Neriglissar, 409, 438
Bêl-tarṣi-îli-ma, of Calah, 343
Belteshazzar (Daniel), explanation of the name, 402
Beltis, goddess, 415
Bêl-ušallim, the enchanter, tablet of, 155
Bêl-Yau, “Bel is Jah,” name, 59
Bêl-zēr-lîšir, copy of an old lamentation made for, 447, 478
Bene-berak (Banâa-barqa), 375
Ben-Hadad II. (son of Ben-Hadad I.), 330;
restores cities, 331;
besieges Samaria, 333;
meets Shalmaneser, 335;
see also 329, 337, 338, 342;
Ben-Hadad (god), 317
_Bennu_, the bird of Râ or Rê, 265
Berechiah, 471
Bêri, the Ḫašabite, to the king of Egypt, 288
Berlin Museum, 372
Berosus, the Babylonian author, 63, 378, 379 (siege of Jerusalem), 384,
385 (death of Sennacherib), 406, 408, 409, 410, 418, 422
Bertin, George, his suggestion with regard to the “sons of god,” 86
Beth-Ammon, 322, 386, 389
Beth-Ammonites, the, 374
Beth-arbel, 361
Beth-Dagon (Bît-Daganna), 375
Bethel (_bêt-îli_), the, at Haran, 201;
division of property declared in the, 180
Beth-Ninip, the city, 235, 299
Bethuel, the name, 245
Beyrout, 293
Biamites, origin of the, 266
Bigamy, 503
Bilingual Creation story, 38-41
Bin-Addu, 317
Bin-Addu-’idri, 329.
_See_ Ben-Hadad
Birch, Dr. S., 253
Birds, sending forth of the, 106, 116
Birejik, 207
Birs-Nimroud (Tower of Nimrod), services in, 485.
_See_ E-zida
Bît-Amukkāni (Chaldean tribe), 356
Bît-Baḫiani, 322
Bît Ḫumrî, Bît Ḫumrîa (Israel), 332, 352, etc.
Bît Ninip in the province of Jerusalem, 2, 235, 299
Bît-Yakin, 371
Black Obelisk, 332, 337
Blessed, the abode of the, at the mouths of the rivers, 73
Blessing of Aaron, Delitzsch’s parallel to, 526
Boatmen’s wages and penalties, 511-512
Boats and ships, hire of, 514, 515;
boats of skins, 319
Body, the, of Joseph not taken at once to Canaan, 266, 267
Boghaz Keui (Köi), 205, 317, 537, 538
Bond and free, marriages between, 506, 507, 525
Borrowers, liabilities and rights of, 495, 496
Borsippa, the temple tower at, 137;
tablets dated at, 461, 462.
_See_ Birs-Nimroud, E-zida
Bosanquet (Mr.), 345
Bow of Merodach, 28
Branding of animals, 457
Breasted, Prof., 552
Brick in Babylonia, 135
Brigandage, 493
Brugsch, Prof., 253, 304, 305;
his translation of the inscription of Baba, 262
Bubastis, 263
Budu-îlu of Beth-Ammon, 374, 386
Builders, their pay and liabilities, 511;
Babylonian kings as, 398
Building of the ship or ark, 102, 103, 117
Bull, divine, sent against Gilgameš and his friend, 97;
killed and mutilated by the latter, 97, 98
Buntaḫtun-ila, king, 54 _n._, 154
Burial of Seqnen-Rê, 269
Burra-buriaš (Burna-burias), king, 276, 293;
speaks of Canaan, 205;
his letter to Amenophis III., 281
Bûr-Sin, king, 124, 164;
meaning of his name, 217, 218
Buzu, city, 182
Buzur-Kurgala, the pilot or boatman of the ship (ark), 104
Caedmon, 47
Cain and Abel, parallel to the story of, 82-84
Calah (Nimroud), built by Asshur, 118, 126, 341;
statues at, 343;
revolt in, 346
Calne, 348
Calneh, one of the cities of Nimrod’s kingdom, 118;
identified with Niffer, 126, 135
Camarina (Urie), 146;
its probable etymology, 147, 197
Cambyses (Kambuzîa), performs ceremonies, 416;
becomes king, 424;
tablet of his reign, 466;
his campaign in Egypt, 467
Canaan, 204, 205;
mentioned by the Pharaoh, 301, 304, 306;
“a domain of Babylonian culture,” 526
Canaanites, Rameses II. and the, 305
Canals, the Babylonian, 159
Canon, the Babylonian, agrees with that of Ptolemy in naming Pûlu or
Poros, 357, 358
Canon of Ptolemy, 358, 398
Canons, the eponym, 352, 353, 358
Cappadocia, 318
Captives asked for, 301, 302
Caravans, attacks on, 281, 285, 286
Carchemish, 272, 304, 319, 321, 329-334, 339, 367
Carchemishites, 350
Carmania, Nabonidus exiled to, 418
Carmel, Thothmes III. at, 271
“Cedar, beloved of the great gods,” the, 76
Carrier’s responsibility, 499
Cart, oxen and driver, hire of, 514
Chaboras (Habor), river, 364
Chaldean, Chaldeans, the tribes, 341, 347, 356;
not liked by the Babylonians, 371;
Esarhaddon and the, 388;
Nabopolassar supposed to be a, 396
Chaldean Christians, the, 394
Characters, Assyrian, 312;
Babylonian, 122
Changelings, 509
Chariots of the Hittites, 319
Chedor-, 209.
_See_ Kudur-
Chedorlaomer, 209, 215;
at first identified with Kudur-mabuk, 222;
probably the Kudur-laḫmal, or Kudur-laḫgumal of the inscriptions, 223,
232
Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, 557, 559 ff.
Cherub, cherubim, 80-82, 533, 547
Chiefs of Takhsi made captive, 273
Chinzeros (Ukîn-zēr), 356, 357
Chnub, Chnum, priests of, plot against Jews, 539, 542, 543
Choosing the inheritance, 180
Christians, of Mossoul and its neighbourhood, 394;
of Baghdad and Irak, 485
Chronological trade-document, a 398
Cilicia (Kefto), 274, 368;
places near, conquered by Sennacherib, 379
Cilicians, the, 390
Cities, creation of, in Babylonia, 28;
their growth, 171;
invoked as deities, 181;
those benefited by Ḫammurabi, 489, 491
Cities, etc., of the western states, before the Hebrews, 277
Cittaeans, 360
Civilization in Babylonia, antiquity of, 170
Clay, Prof. A. T., 555
Cleopatra’s Needle, 265
Coast-lands, Mediterranean, pay tribute to Aššur-banî-âpli, 388
Code of Ḫammurabi, 491-515;
notes upon, 519, ff., 545, 546;
illustrations of, 166, 168, 173 ff., 176, ff., 179, ff.
Collisions at sea, 512
Colophon-dates, 178-182, 184, 185, 187, 188, 211-214
Combat with the Dragon, 18 ff.
Commagene, 319, 329, 372
Commissariat, letter concerning the, 287
Commissioner and agent, relations between, 498, 499
Compensation for slaves, 458, 459, 513, 523
Conciliation, Elamite policy of, 233
Concubines, 502, 503, 508
Confusion of tongues, the, 132, 133, 139, 140, 170
Congregation, the, of, E-saggil, 126 B.C., 482
Constellations, Merodach sets the, 27
Consulting the teraphim, 247
Contempt for gods, 553, (480)
Cossaeans (Kaššû), 373, 537
Costume of the people in Babylonia 2000 B.C., 171
Countries known to the Babylonians and Assyrians, list of, 206
Courts of Justice in the temples and at the gates of cities, 163
Creation, the Hebrew story of, 11 ff.;
how it grew, 9 ff.;
differences between it and the Babylonian accounts, 34 ff., 48-49
Creation-legend, the Semitic, an heroic poem, 10;
extracts from, 18, 19, 21-23, 35, 36;
remarks upon, 20, 33-38
Creation-legend, the bilingual, 38-45;
why compiled, 39
Creation-legends, though differing, contain similar ideas, 10
Creation-tablet, the first, 16;
Damascius’ version, 16;
remarks thereon, 20;
the second, 20, 21;
third, 22;
fourth, 22-26;
fifth, 26-28;
sixth, 28, 29;
last, 29-33
Cruelty of the Egyptians to captives, 273
Cultivation, tablet referring to, 456, 457
Cure of Gilgameš, the, 108, 109
Cush, the father of Nimrod, 118, 204
Cuthah, the temple-tower at, 136;
tribute from, 341;
its site found by Rassam, 394
Cylinder-seal with supposed representation of Adam’s fall, 79
Cyprus (Yatnana or Ya(w)anana), 128, 304, 373;
its kings, 386, 387;
tributary to Egypt, 272;
aids Aššur-banî-âpli, 389
Cyrus, his operations against Astyages, 411;
crosses the Tigris, 412;
subjugates Babylonia and enters the capital, 415;
helped by the Jews, 416;
his treatment of Nabonidus, 418;
master of Babylonia, 419;
his inscription, 420 ff.;
champion of the Babylonian gods, 422;
restores exiles to their homes, 423;
his death, 424
Daché and Dachos, miswritten for Laché and Lachos, 17
Dagon (Dagunu), 59;
(Dagan), 142, 279
_Daily Telegraph_ expedition, the, 90;
finds a fragment of a second story of the Flood, 117
Damage by herdsmen, 514
Damascius, his version of the Babylonian Creation-story, 16, 17, 63
Damascus, the city (Dimasqu, Dimasqa), Israelites build streets there,
331;
Mari’u, the king besieged there, 341;
“land of,” 353;
Ahaz goes there, 356, 363
Damascus, the country (Ša-imēri-šu, Imēri-su), 329, 334, 336-338;
Mari’u, king of, 341;
subdued by Assyria, 348 (353);
Rezon of, 354
Damu, goddess, “the great enchanter,” 16
Daniel, 402, 417
Daos, the shepherd of Pantibiblon, his long reign, 63
Dapur (Tabor), 305
Darius Hystaspis, mounts the throne of Babylon, 424;
the contract-tablets of his reign, 425, 468-471;
his monotheism, 426, 427;
the extent of his dominions, 427
Darius II., 539, 542
Dark head, people of the, 420
“Dark vine,” the, of the Babylonian Paradise, Eridu, 71, 75
Dâ-šartî, a captive, 302
Date, probable, of the Hyksos invasion, 265;
of the Exodus, 306
“Daughter for daughter,” 510, 522
Daughter (? adopted), sale of a, 185
Dauké (= Damkina), 17, 18;
consort of Aa or Ea, 64
Day, the evil, 528
Days of creation, no reference to, 49;
days of the month, 526, ff.
Dead slave, the, 458, 459
Death of Shalmaneser II., 339;
IV., 361;
Sargon, 372;
Sennacherib, 383;
Esarhaddon, 388;
the last king of Assyria, 393;
Belshazzar, 419
Death-penalty for adultery, 501, 521
Debt, working off of, 500, 521;
responsibility of husband and wife for, 503, 504
De Clercq collection, the, 560
Decoration, Babylonian, 551 (405), 552 (471-472)
Defamation, 501
Dehavites, the, 391
Deified kings, 164
Deities as witnesses, 187
Deities of Mitanni, 277, 278
Deities of west Asian origin, 156
Deities probably foreign, 157
Delaiah, son of Sanballat, 541
Delitzsch, Prof., Friedrich, 14, 15, 36, 78;
restorations by, 122, 361;
his etymology of _sadû_, 248;
_Babel und Bibel_, etc., 525, ff., 546, 559
Deposit, goods on, 499, 500, 501, 521
Derketo (Atargatis), goddess, 203
Dêru, Babylonian city, 363
Desertion, 502
Devotees, recluses, priestesses, and public women, 161, 499, 507, 508
“Dibbara Legend,” the, 122
Digging of canals, dating by the, 159
Dimasqa, Dimasqu (Damascus), 336, 341, 353, 363
Dinaites, the, 391
Diodorus Siculus upon the taking of Nineveh, 393
Disaster, the Assyrian, at the siege of Jerusalem, 378
Disowning of a son, 176, 177, 505
Distraint, 500;
a parallel to the case of the Egyptian farmers, 525
Divination, 247
“Divine Daughters,” the, 160
Divine honours paid to Egyptian rulers, 270
Division of property, 178-181
Divorce, 181, 502
Double-formed and bull-like monsters, Ea and his attendants, 63, 64
Dove, swallow, and raven sent forth from the ship (ark), 106
Dower, return of, 502, 504
Dowers and gifts to virgins, priestesses, etc., 508
Downfall of Assyria, the, 392, 393;
Nabopolassar upon the, 550
Dragon of Chaos, the, 18;
dragon and the serpent-tempter, 529 ff.
Dreams, royal, 390, 411
Dress of the scribes in early Babylonia, 171, 172
Driver, Prof., 260 _n._
Du-azaga, “the holy seat,” 405
Dûdu, name, 315
Dudḫalia, 537
“Due of the Sun-god,” the, 167
Dū-maḫa, a sacred place, 228
Dumuzi-Abzu, “Tammuz of the Abyss,” 43, 63
Dungi, Babylonian king, 124, 152, 164
Dunip (Tenneb), city, 277;
resists the enemies of Egypt, 294
Dunnaitess, lamentation of the, 477
Dura, plain of, 403, 404
Dûr-Ammi-zaduga, city, 172
Dûr-Dungi, 325
Dûr-îlitess, lamentation of the, 478
Dûr-Kuri-galzu, 347
Dûr-Ladinna, 371
Dûr-maḫ-îlāni, son of Eri-Eaku, 223, 224, 226, 227, 231, 233
Dûr-Sargina (Khorsabad), the temple-tower there, 137, 369
Dusratta, king of Mitanni, 276, 278, 304, 316
Dynasty of Babylon, 142, 152, 153;
Babylonia at the period of the, 169 ff.
Ea, the god, 17, 26, 56, etc.
_See_ Aa
Eaašarri, 278 _n._
Ea-banî (Aê-banî, Aa-banî), the man of the wilds, 92;
his creation and appearance, 93;
is seen by a hunter, enticed, and induced to go to Erech, 94;
he accompanies Gilgameš against Ḫumbaba, 94, 95;
kills a divine bull, 97, 98;
his dreams and death, 98;
his resurrection, 110 (Ea-du, Enki-du)
Ea-du or Enki-du, 92 _n._, 548
E-ana, E-anna, the temple at Ecrech, 39, 229;
its sanctuary, 91
Early life of a Syrian prince, 285
E-babbara (the temple at Sippar), 160, 434;
expenditure of, 446;
(the temple at Larsa), 218
E-bara. _See_ E-babbara
Ebed-tob (Abdi-ṭâba), 291
Ebers, Prof., his translation of the inscription of Ameni, 261;
upon Apophis, 263
Ebisum (Abēšu’), king, 153, 155
Eden, Garden of 13, 69;
the native land of the Babylonians, 14;
Sippar of Eden, 70, 72;
Eden not referred to as the earthly paradise in the Babylonian
inscriptions, 72
Edina, “the plain” (Eden), 43, 72
Edom (Udumu), 322, 341, 370, 374, 386
Edrei, 313
Egypt (Musuru, Musru, Musur, Miṣir), 249-309;
the Hyksos invasion, 251;
gradually loses Palestine, 290;
governors still faithful to, 293;
invaded by Sennacherib, 381;
an Assyrian province;
see also 363, 365, 375
Egypt, the brook (? river) of, 388
Egypt Exploration Fund, the, 305
Egyptian civilization, 250
Egyptian king, the, to the prince of the Amorites, 300
Egyptian loan-words, 143, 144
Egyptian slave, sale of an, 466, 551;
testifies to Cambyses’ campaign in Egypt, 467
Egyptians (Muṣurâa), 375;
their decision with regard to the Israelites, reason of, 268
E-ḫulḫul, the temple of Sin or Nannara at Haran, 202
Ejectment before the end of the term, 498
E-kidur-kani, temple at Babylon, 433
Ekron (Amqarruna), 375, 376, 377, 386
E-kua, sanctuary of Merodach, 472
Elah, 355
Elam, a mountainous country, 206;
firstborn of Shem, 549;
its power, 209;
conquered by Sargon, 362 (363);
Merodach-baladan in, 373;
ravaged by Sennacherib, 380;
conquered by Aššur-banî-âpli, 391;
acknowledges the sway of Darius, 427
Elamite, Elamites: Ḫumbaba, 94, 95;
Chedorlaomer, 209, 215, 222, 224, 227;
Kudur-mabuk, Kudur-laḫ(gu)mal, etc., 222-225, 230, 232;
hostile to Assyria, 372, 379, 380, 391;
their incursions near the Tigris, 483;
see also 122, 140, 170, 229
Elath, 353
Elders, rule of, 280
Elephantine, the Aramaic papyri from, 539 ff.
Elephants killed by Tiglath-pileser I. in the land of Haran, 200;
and in Lebanon, 201;
elephants in the district of Niy, 273
Elephants’ tusks, 321
El-Kâb, 261
Ellasar, city, 124
Ellila (v. Bel)
Ellipu, country of, 341, 372
Elmesum, princess, marriage-contract of, 166
Elmešum’s letter to his father, 172
Eltekah (Altaqû), 375
Elulaeus of Tyre, 360
E-maḫ (temple), 161
Embankment of the Sun-god, the 213
E-melam-anna, the temple of Nusku at Haran, 202
Emutbālu or Yamutbālu, conquered by Ḫammurabi, 211, 212, 213, 216, 217,
219, 220
Enchantments, Istar’s, 97
Endowment of an adopted daughter, 173
Engur, mother of Aa or Ea, 64
Enki-du, the friend of Gilgameš, 92 _n._, 540
En-nu-gi and the Flood, 101
Ennun-dagalla, 228
Enoch, 84
Enšara and Ninšara, 67
Enweduranki (Euedoreschos), 63, 77, 538, 539
Ephron, 315
Eponym dates in the reign of Shalmaneser IV., 358
Erech non-existent at the beginning, 39;
built by Merodach, 41;
called “Erech the walled,” and ruled over by Gilgameš, 91;
besieged, 91;
other references to the city, 92, 93, 94;
rejoicing there on the death of the divine bull, 98;
Gilgameš returns thither after seeing Pir-napištim, 110;
one of the cities of Nimrod’s kingdom, 118, 124, 135;
its temple-tower, 136;
the city delivered to Rîm-Sin, 221;
lamentation over its misfortunes, 477, 478;
tablet dated at, 456
Ereš-ki-gala (Persephone), 279
Eri-Aku (Eri-Sin), 216, 217, 218, 233;
inscription of, 219
Eridu, the Babylonian Paradise, 71, 72, 73;
non-existent at first, 39, 42;
made, 40;
not the earthly city of that name, 43;
a type of Paradise, 43;
the incantation of, 44;
one of the principal cities of Babylonia, 124
Esâ (? = Esau), 157, 245
E-saggil, 223, 224. _See_ E-sagila
E-sagila (E-saggil, E-sangil), completed by Merodach, 40, 43;
meaning of the name, 43, 139;
the temple of Belus, 137, 246, 472;
restored by Samsu-iluna, 161;
restoration attempted under Alexander and Philip, 476;
offerings at, 412, 480;
its congregation, 482;
see also 409, 415
E-sagila, the temple “within the Abyss,” founded by Lugal-du-azaga, 40, 73
E-sagila-râmat and her father-in-law’s slave, 465, 466
Esarhaddon (Aššur-âḫâ-iddina), 383, 384-388;
apparently crowned at Haran, 201-202;
in Ḫanigalbat, 384, 385;
in Babylonia and the Mediterranean states, 386, 387;
in Armenia, and on the east of Assyria, 388;
in Egypt, 251, 388;
he restores the temple of Belos, 560;
mentions his brothers, 558, and his father’s campaign against the Arabs,
382;
his death, 388
E-šarra, the heavens, 26
E-šarra, an Assyrian temple, 328, 340
E-ša-turra, a temple at Su-anna, 433
Esau, the name, 157, 245
Escaped slaves, 493
Esdraelon, defeat of Syrians at, 271
Ešnunna(k) (Umliaš), soldiers of, defeated by Ḫammurabi, 213;
destroyed by a flood, 214;
its gods restored by Cyrus, 422
Etakama (Edagama), of Kinza and Kadesh, 279;
pretending to be faithful to Egypt, attacks Amki, 288, 289;
hostile to Egypt, 293
E-temen-ana(-kia), the tower of Babylon, 136, 138, 139, 406, 559;
and shrine of E-sagila, 398, 560
E-temena-ursag, temple, 213
Etham, 304
Ethobaal (Tu-ba’alu), 374
E-tur-kalama, a Babylonian temple, 214, 415
Euedoreschos, 63, 546, 547
E-ur-imina-ana(-kia), the tower of Borsippa, 136, 138
Euphrates, creation of, 40;
mentioned, 329, 334, 335, 336, 339, 341, 344, 471, etc.
Eupolemus concerning Abraham, 146, 196
Eusebius, 396
Eve, a Babylonian type of, 532
Events chosen to date by, 159
Evetts, Mr. B. T. A., 408
Evil-Merodach (Awel-Maruduk), 408;
murdered, 409;
tablets dated in his reign, 440, 441
Evil spirit, the, driven from the temple, 530
Evolution in the Babylonian story of the Creation, 33, 34
Exodus, date of the, 306;
pharaoh of the, 309
Expulsion of Eve, a parallel to, 83
Expulsion of the Egyptians from Palestine, 302
“Eye for an eye,” 509, 522
E-zida, the temple-tower at Borsippa, restored by Nebuchadnezzar, 138,
139, 406;
Evil-Merodach, 409;
its people resist Kudur-laḫgu(mal), 229, 230;
its bronze doorstep, 405;
incantation concerning, 41;
see also 412, 415, 485
Ezra, Sir H. Howorth upon, 427, 429
“Fair son,” the, his carrying off, 83
Faithlessness, 503
Fall? did the Babylonians possess the legend of the, 79, 531, 532
False witness, 491
Family of the hero of the Flood saved with him, 103, 115, 117
Famines in Egypt, 260, 261
Father’s lawsuit, a, 182
Fear of God, lines upon, 50
Female rule, 280
Fifteenth day = Sabbath, 527
Fire, penalty of death by, 480
Flood, the Biblical story, 87 ff.;
the Babylonian story, 100 ff.;
introduction to, 89, ff.;
first read by G. Smith, 90;
a chapter of the Legend of Gilgameš, 90;
related to him by Pir-napištim, 101;
decided upon by the gods, 101, 102;
its approach, arrival, and effect, 104, 105;
duration and subsidence, 105, 106;
due to the god Bel, 106;
why sent, 107, 112;
Pir-napištim dreads its coming, 104, 116;
the second Babylonian story of the, 117;
was it a “Sin Flood”? 529;
description of the tablets recording, 100, 101
Followers of Tiamtu, the, 530
Food, incantation in which it is used, 540
Foster-children and their disowning, 176, 177, 505
Four kings against five, the, 208
Fraudulent practices, 513
Furious cattle, laws concerning, 512, 523
Furniture, lists of, 189
Future life, 111
Gad, the name, 246 (Gadu-ṭâbu)
Gadlat, goddess of Haran, 203
Gadu-ṭâbu, name, 547
Gala-Aruru = Istar the star = the planet Venus, 44
Galilee, attacked by Tiglath-pileser, 353
Galilee, South, invaded by Amenophis II., 273
Garden of Eden, 69
Garizim, temple at, re-dedicated to Jupiter, 481
Garment, the vanishing, 23
Garu, Petrie’s identification of, 292
Gate of Istar at Babylon, 551, 552
Gates of city, judgment in the, 163
Gath (Gimti), 299
Gath-Carmel, 296
Gauzanitis, 304
Gaza (Ḫazitu), 277, 376 386, 411;
Thothmes III. at, 271;
Yabitiri guards, 285;
Hanon of, 352, 363, 365, 366
Gazzāni (a ruler), 224, 325, 556
Gebal (Gublu), 278, 293, 313, 317, 322, 339, 386
Gebalite, whose brother drove him from the gate, 300
Gebalites (Gublâa), 350, 374
Gedaliah, governor of Jerusalem, put to death, 400
Gemariah, 471
Gergesa, 324
Gezer, 297, 299, 306
Giammu, prince, 328
Gift to a son, 505
Gigîtum, Neriglissar’s daughter, 442
Gihon, river, 69, 70
Gilead, 353
Gilgameš, ancient hero, king of Erech, 73, 91;
the legend concerning him, 90 ff.;
and his friend Ea-banî, 92;
who consents to go to him, 94;
he seeks the place of Ḫumbaba, 94;
who is killed, 95;
Ištar makes love to him, 95, 96;
he reproaches her, 96, 97;
and she sends a divine bull against them, 97;
dreams concerning him, 98;
he mourns for Ea-banî and sets out on his great journey, 98;
he meets Ur-Sanabi, the pilot, and Pir-napištim, 99;
who tells him the story of the Flood, 101 ff.;
he is restored to health, 108, 109;
finds the magic plant, 109;
loses it, and reaches Erech, 110;
sees the spirit of Ea-banî, 111;
the new version of the legend referring to him, 547 ff.
Gilgameš-series, the getting together of the, 90
Gilu-ḫêpa, wife of Amenophis II., 276
Gimil-Sin, king, 124, 164
Gimmirrâa, the, 390
Gimti (Gath), 299
Gimtu (Gath?), 369
Gindibu’u, an Arabian tribe, 333
Girgashites, the, 310, 324-326
Gišdubar, Gišṭubar, Gisdhubar. _See_ Gilgameš
Glosses in the Tel-el-Amarna tablets, 234 _n._
Gobryas (Gubaru, Ugbaru) of Gutium, enters Babylon, and appoints governors
there, 415, 417, 418, 419;
(goes) against ..., 416, 417;
receives the kingdom for Cyrus, 419
“God,” names for, in the chief tongues of the ancient East, 170, _n._
Gods and their seats, 160, 415;
tithe granted to, 448;
processions of, 526;
they fear the Flood, 105;
those who joined Tiamtu, 20, 25;
their punishment, 25
Gods, figures of, found under the pavement of palaces, 247
Gods identified with Merodach, 58
Gods of On (Heliopolis), 264
Gods of the west of Asia, 277
Gog, 391
“Gold, much gold,” 277, 283
Gomer, people of, 390
“Good wishes,” the tablet of, 81
Goshen, 268
Government of states, 279
Gozan, 345, 364
Greek words in Babylonia, 480
Greetings, Babylonian, 172, 452, 453, 454
Gublu (Gebal), 313
Guites, 329;
(= Goim?), 332, 333
Gula, goddess of healing, 86, 472
Gutians, Gutites, 158, 170, 552
Guti-kirmil, 296
Gutû or Gutium, 206, 207, 415
Gyges’ son, the dream of, 390
_Ḫabati_, the, 292, 299
_Ḫabbatu_, 291. _See_ Habati
_Ḫabiri_, the, 269, 291, 295, 296, 297, 538;
they possess the land, 299
Ḫaburu, city in Babylonia, 446
Hadad, 160, 277, 330;
of Aleppo, 329.
_See_ Addu
Ḫādara, Rezon’s birthplace, 354
Hades, “the land of no-return,” 65
Hagar, her position, 186;
parallels (with differences) to the case of, 174, 175, 185, 236, 524
Ḫâi, 315
Halah (Ḫalaḫḫa), 364
Ḫalman, 325
Hamah (Hamath), 317
Ḫamanu (Amanus), mountains, 328, 334, 336, 349
Hamath (Amatte), Hamathites (Amatâa), Irhulêni of, 329, 334;
districts of, 349;
Yau-bi’idi (Ilu-bi’idi) of, 322, 363;
see also 348
Ḫammatites (? = Hamathites), Eni-îlu of the, 350
Ḫammurabi (Amraphel), changes during his reign, 125;
its length, 153;
tablets dated therein 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187;
references to his conquest of “Mair and Malgia,” 187;
other references to him, 209-215, 238;
his code of laws, 491-515;
his image on the stele, 487;
the benefits he had conferred on the cities of Babylonia, 488-491;
his opinions of his reign, 515, 516;
his curse upon any destroying or changing his record, 517-519
Ḫammurabi-ḫêgalla, canal, 211
Ḫammurabi-nuḫuš-niši, canal, 212
Ḫammurabi-Samši, name, 164, 187
Ḫana-galbat, Ḫani-galbat, king of, 283;
the caravans of, 286;
Esarhaddon fights (? against his brothers) there, 384, 385
Ḫanni, messenger of Egypt, 301
Hanon of Gaza, 352
Ḫanû, land of, 206
Haran born at Ur of the Chaldees, 144
Haran (city, the Bab. Ḫarran), a centre of lunar worship, 147, 195;
Terah and his family migrate thither, 192, 195;
its probable origin, 199, 200;
its ruins, 200;
elephants in the neighbourhood in early times, 200, 201;
its gods and temples, 201, 202, 534;
Esarhaddon (?) crowned there, 201, 202;
Nabonidus restores the temple of Sin, 202;
its renown in later days, 202, 203;
the city besieged, 411;
deities restored, 414
Ḫarḫar, called by the Assyrians Kar-Sarru-ukîn, 367, 368
Ḫarri-si’isi, 325
Ḫatānu, servant of Neriglissar, 439
Ḫatarika, Ḫatarikka, 344, 345, 349
Hatred of Bel for the hero of the Flood, 102, 113
Hatshepsut, queen regent, 271
Ḫatta, 288. _See_ Hatti
Ḫatti, Ḫattî (Hittites, Kheta, people of Heth), 205, 288, 319, 341;
their depredations, 317;
ships of, used by Sennacherib, 379;
Syria and the Holy Land, 386.
_See_ Heth, Hittites
Ḫattu, city, 205
Ḫattu-šil, (Kheta-sir), 320, 537
Haupt, Prof. Paul, upon the description of the ship or ark, 114
Hauran, the (Ḫauranu), 336
Ḫâya, a messenger, 286
Ḫaza, 340
Hazael of Arabia, 382
Hazael of (Ša-)Iamēri-šu (Damascus), 337, 338, 342
Ḫaza-îlu, 336, etc. _See_ Hazael
Hazor, 277, 353
Heathen images, the, of Jacob’s household, 247, 248
Heavens, Merodach arranges the, 27
Hebrews, their ancestor and his language, 204;
in Egypt, 268;
did not leave with the Hyksos, 267;
their commonwealth, 327;
were they the _Ḫabiri_? 538
Heliopolis, 258
Helios (Samas), 203
Hellenizing influence, the, of Antiochus Epiphanes, 480
Helpers of Rahab, the, 530
Hephaistos (Sethos), 381, 382
Herdsmen, their duties and liabilities, 213, 214, 524
Hereditary chiefs, 279
Herodotus upon the Temple of Belus, 137, 405;
Sennacherib’s expedition to Egypt, 381, 382;
Nitocris’ architectural works, 407;
see also 342, 443
Heth, 368, 369; the sons of, 315.
_See_ Ḫatti, Hittites
Hezekiah (Ḫazaqiau), 375, 376, 377, 395
Hiddekel, the Tigris, Babylonian form of the name, 84
Hiding heathen images, 248
Hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Hittites, 317
Hilprecht, Prof. H. V., 124
Hire of animals for agricultural work, 514;
field labourers and herdsmen, 513;
fields, 495;
of a ship (by Belshazzar), 450;
(by Sirku), 470
Hired “from himself,” 188
Hired men, their responsibilities, 513
Hiring of slaves and freemen, for money, 187, 188;
for produce, 188;
risks of the hirer, 191
Hirom (Ḫirummu) of Tyre, 350
Hittite, Hittites, 140, 205, 274, 277, 315-323, 341;
attack Tuneb, 316;
tributary, 272, 316, 320;
their architecture borrowed by the Assyrians, 323;
inscriptions, where found, 317;
their language, 537
Hittite, a, the mother of Jerusalem, 316
Holy Land, 340;
its state before the entry of the Israelites, 277
Home, the, of the Hittites, 318
Hommel, Prof., 14, 54;
suggests a connection of Ea, Aê, or Aa, with Ya’u (Jah), 113;
his early etymology of Arpachshad, 143;
his work upon Egyptian culture 144 _n._;
the Hittite inscriptions, 318;
Gilgameš, 547;
Shinar, 549;
early names, etc., 555, 557
Hophra encourages Zedekiah against Nebuchadnezzar, 399;
marches to support him, 400;
deposed, 401
Hor-em-heb, 303
Horner, Rev. J., 331
Horse, glorious in war, loved by Istar, 96
Horus, 264
Hosea, Hoshea (Ausi’a), king, 354, 355, 359;
the prophet, 361
House of Belshazzar, its situation, 447
Household goods, 189;
gods, 247
Housebreaking, 493, 521
Houses and cities, built by Merodach, 40
Houses, private, 188, 189
Howorth, Sir H., 427, 429
Hui, his tomb at Thebes, 303
Ḫulḫutḫulitess, lamentations of the 477
Ḫumbaba, apparently an Elamite, 94;
Gilgameš and Ea-banî seek his domain, 94, 95;
his end, 95
Ḫursag-kalama, Babylonian city, 415
Ḫursag-kalamitess, lamentations of the, 477
Husband, causing death of, 504
Ḫuṣṣiti-ša-Mušallim-Marduk, tablet dated at, 436
Hyksos, or shepherd-kings, legends concerning, 252;
their fear of an Assyrian (Babylonian) invasion, 251;
their policy in time of famine, 260;
quit Egypt, 252, 270;
at Tanis, 264;
those who remained reduced to subjection, 270;
their descendants, 266
Hyspasines, 481. _See_ Aspāsinē
Ian-Ra (Ra-ian), was he the pharaoh of Joseph? 263
Iāwa, the ending of names, 470, 471.
_See_ -yāwa
Ibi-Sân sells his daughter, 185
Ibi-Sin, king, 124, 152, 164
Ibi-Tutu, king (?), 230, 231
Ibscher, Herr, 544
Idalium, 386
Idigna, Akkado-Babylonian form of the name of the Tigris, 84
Igigi, address to Merodach by the, 29-33;
his title among them, 32
Ijon, 353
Ikausu of Ekron, 386
Ili-milki (Elimelech), 295
Ili-rabiḫ, 288, 289
Illegitimate children, acknowledgement of, 505, 506
Illinos (Illil, the god Bel), 17
Iltani, princess, hires a field, 167
Iltani, princess, sun-devotee, hires a reaper, 168
Ilu-bi’idi (Yau-bi’idi) of Hamath, 322, 363, 366
Ilu-dâya, the Hazite, writes to the king of Egypt, 288
Imgur-Bêl, wall of Babylon, 405
Immerum, king, 154
Immortality, the Chaldean Noah attains, 101, 108
“Impure,” the name given by the Egyptians to the Hyksos, 254
Inaction of the Egyptian king, 296, etc.
Ina-E-sagila-rêmat, daughter of Nabonidus, 450
Ina-êši-êṭir, Nebuchadnezzar’s agent, 432
Incantation for E-zida (the Birs-Nimroud), 41;
against “sickness of the head,” 55;
to purify, 86
Incest, 504, 521, 522
India-House Inscription, extract from the, 138, 139;
references to Babylon, 405, 406
Inheritance, 178-181, 503-507;
of virgins, priestesses, etc., 508
Injuries, penalties for, to slaves, 509, 522;
to a woman, 510, 522;
in a quarrel, 509, 510, 522
Inscriptions, the Hittite, 317, 318
_’Ir_, the Hebrew for “city,” and _uru_, 241
Irḫulēni of Hamath, 329; = Urhi-lēni, 332;
resists the Assyrian king, 334, 335
Irnini, a god, 95
Irqata, rule of, 280
Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, 242
Išḫara, goddess, invoked, 433
Isidore of Charax, 192
Isin, Isinna (Karrak), city, 124, 211
Isis, 264
Isis-Hathor (Venus Urania), 264
Isqal(l)una (Askelon), 374, 386
Israel, 351, 352, 355;
on the monolith of Meneptah, 306
Israel, the name, probable Assyro-Babylonian forms, 157, 245
Israelites, allied with Ben-Hadad, 329-333, 337;
subject to Hazael, 342
_Iššaku_, “chief” (= _patesi_), 127
Ištar, 55;
her search for Tammuz in Hades, 65;
makes love to Gilgameš, 96;
her cruelty to her lovers, 96, 97;
sends a divine bull against Gilgameš and Ea-banî, 97;
which they kill, 98;
her grief on account of the Flood, 105, 116;
worshipped at Erech, 160;
her spouse Tammuz, 279;
Ištar’s gate, at Babylon, 405, 559, 560
Ištar and the _asherah_, 278
Ištar of Babylon, 212;
Haran, 203;
Nineveh, 278, 491, 551
Ištara, goddess, 156
Išullanu, Ištar’s treatment of, 97
Itu’u, on the Euphrates, 344
Iyyar, the month of Ea (Aa, Aê), 65
Izdubar. _See_ Gilgameš
Jabesh, 293
Jacob, Jacob-el, 157, 183, 243, 244, 547
Jaffa, Yabitiri guards, 285
Jah, 113, 535
Jahweh (Jehovah), 535
Janoah, 353
Jebus (Jerusalem), 323
Jebusites, 312, 323, 324
Jehoahaz, 342
Jehoiachin, captive in Babylon, 399;
released by Evil-Merodach, 408
Jehoiakim, 399
Jehoram, 338, 339
Jehu, “son of Omri,” 332, 337-339
Jensen, Prof., 140, 318, 546, 548
Jerabis (Carchemish), 317
Jerusalem (Uru-salim, Ursalimmu), 234, 277, 280, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379;
legend attributing its foundation to the Hyksos, 252;
Ahaz besieged there, 353;
invested twice by the Babylonians, 399, 400;
Temple destroyed, 400;
Temple polluted, 481
Jesus, brother of Johanan, murdered, 542
Jews (Yaudâa), 375;
at Damascus, 331;
last vestiges of their rule, 400;
Cyrus helped by, 416;
probably thought him a monotheist, 419;
names of Jews at Babylon, 470, 471;
why did they remain in the cities of their exile? 474 ff.
Jezreel, 338
Jilting, 504
Joash, king of Israel, 340, 342
Johns, the Rev. C. H. W., 551, 552
Joppa (Yappû). _See_ Jaffa, Yapu
Joseph, the name, 243;
its probable meaning, 244
Joseph in Egypt, 255 ff.;
as viceroy, 260;
no native record of his administration, 253;
his death, 266, 267
Josephus, 359, 382, 408-410;
upon the Hyksos, 251;
the period of Joseph, 262;
the Amorites, 313;
the siege of Jerusalem, 377, 378;
the murder of the high-priest’s brother, 542
Jotham, 355
Judah, 353;
one of the states regarded by the Assyrians as Hittite, 322, 386 (Yaudu)
Judeans (Yaudâa), 375. _See_ Jews
Justin upon Abraham, 147
Kadašman-ḫarbe or Kadašman-Murus, 123;
transports the Sutites, 291
Kadesh, 279;
(Kidša), 300;
conquered by Seti I., 304;
(Kidiš), 401
Ka-dumu-nuna, the gate of E-saggil, 484
Kaldu (the Chaldean tribes in Babylonia), 341
Kalisch, 266
Kallima-Sin (now read Kadašman-ḫarbe), king, 276
Kames, king of Egypt, 269
Kamid-el-Lauz, 293
Kammusu-nadbi of Moab, 374
Kan’ana (Canaan), 304
Karanatum, her adoption, 177;
her name and that of Ashteroth Karnaim, 157
Kar-Adad (fortress of Hadad), 349
Kar-Duniaš, Kara-Dunias, Karu-Dunias (Babylonia), 120 _n._;
ruled by Kudur-laḫgumal, 225;
_see also_ 281, 286
Kar-Nebo, maternal grandfather of Abram, 146
Kar-Shaimaneser (-Shalmanu-aša-rid), city, 339
Kar-Sippar, 167
Kaši (= Kašši), 297, 298
(_see_ Kassite)
Kassite, Kassites, 122, 140, 170, 537
Kedesh, 272, 353
Kefto, identification of, 274
Keilah, 299
Kemi (Egypt), 271
Kêš, a Babylonian city, 124
Kêšitess, lamentations of the, 477
Kheta (Hittites), 274;
their treaty with Egypt, 304;
Meneptah’s reference to, 306
Kheta-sir = Ḫattu-šil, 320, 537
Khorsabad (Dûr-Sargina), 137, 369
Kidnapping, 492, 493, 520
Kidiš (Kadesh), 401
Kili(gug ?), Neriglissar’s servant, 438
Kili-Tešub son of Kali-Tešub, 319
Killing and mutilating hired animals, 512, 523
Kinaḫḫi (Canaan), 281, 301
King, Mr. L. W., 28, 545, 546
King, the, 164-168
Kingi or Kengi (a part of Babylonia), 134, 351
Kingi-Ura or Kengi-Ura = Sumer and Akkad (Babylonia), 206
Kingu, Tiamtu’s husband, exalted, receives the Tablets of Fate, 19;
is overcome by Merodach and deprived of them, 25;
bound, 36
Kirbiš Tiamtu, 24, 31
Kirkišâti, 324, 325
_Kirubu_ = Heb, _kerûb_, “cherub”;
_kirub nismû_, _kirub šarri_, 81
Kiš, a Babylonian city, 415
Kišar, “host of earth,” 16
Kišara-gala, 66
Kisi, Aramean leader, 349
Kiškanū-tree in Eridu, 75;
its fruit, 76
Kissaré and Assoros (Kišar and Anšar), 17
Kizirtum, princess, 166
Knudtzon, Prof., 556
Ktesias, 203
Kudma-bani, district, 179, 180
Kudur in Elamite names, 209, 222
Kudur-laḫgumal, 230, 231
Kudur-mabuk, inscription of, 219;
his sons Eri-Aku and Rîm-Sin, 216
Kûites, the, 350
Kullanû, city, 348
Kulummite(s), 372
Kummuhi (Commagene), 319, 320, 329
Kundaspu of Commagene, 329
Kurium, 387
Laban, the name, 245
Labaya, father of Mut-zu’u, 286;
his sons, 293, 297, 298
Laborosoarchod (Labāši-Marduk), son of Neriglissar, 410;
lends money, 443, 444
Labynetus, Cyrus marches against, 407.
_See_ Nabonidus
Lachish, 277, 297, 377
Lachish epigraph, the, 382
Lagamal (Lagamar, Lagamaru), 222
Lagaš, a Babylonian city, 124
Laḫamu, consort of Laḫmu, 16
Laḫamu, creatures produced by Tiamtu, 19
Laḫmu and Laḫamu, production of, 16;
these names in Damascius, 17
“Lake of Abraham the Beloved,” 192, 193
“Lament of the Daughter of Sin,” 83
Lamentations, Babylonian, 194, 195, 477, 478
“Land of the city of Jerusalem,” 297
Landed property acquired by Neriglissar, 440-442
Lands, etc., created by Merodach, 40
Language of Canaan, 204
Larancha, lamentation of, 477, 478
Larsa (Ellasar), 124;
the temple-tower at, 137;
a centre of sun-worship, 160
Laws, Sumero-Akkadian, 190, 191, 550;
Ḫammurabi’s, 491-515, 553, 554
Lawsuit of Bunanitu, the, 462-464
Lawsuits, 182, 184
Layard, Sir A. H., discoverer of the palaces of Nineveh and Calah;
and Rassam, his helper and successor, 394
Laz (goddess), 211
Leasehold system, the, 190
Lebanon, elephants in, 201;
Saniru (Shenir) before, 336;
_see also_ 387
Legal precedents, 190, 191
Legend of Asenath, 259
Legend of Chedorlaomer, 227-230
Legend of Râ-’Apop’i, 254
Lenormant, inscription published by, 216
Letter concerning an inscription of Ammurapi (Hammurabi), 210
Letters from Abdi-ṭâba (Ebed-ḫiba, Ebed-ṭâba, Ebed-tob), 294-299;
Ammi-ṭitana, 165;
Akizzi of Qatna, 289;
Ašur-uballiṭ, 382;
Bêri, 288;
Burra-buriaš, 281;
Ilu-dayan, 289;
Mut-zu’u, 286;
Yabitiri, 284;
Yidia, 286, 287;
the king of Egypt, 300;
the king’s daughter to Queen Aššu-râaitu, 392
Leviathan, 530
Leviticus xviii. 18, the tablet illustrating, 545
_Lex talionis_, 509, 522
Lêya, a captive, 302
Libation, the, of the Babylonian Noah, 106
Lieblein upon the pharaohs of the Oppression and the Exodus, 269
Life at Tanis in Egypt, 264
_Lingua franca_, the, of Western Asia, 140
Lion (divine), loved by Ištar, 96
Liver, the, in divination, 247
Loan to make up purchase-money and its repayment by instalments, 460, 461,
464, 465
“Lord and Lady, my,” 479
Lud, 391
Ludlul the Sage, lines by, 50
Lugal-zag-gi-si, early Akkadian king, 123, 124
Luli of Sidon, 373
Lullubite, Lullubites, 123, 325
Lulubū (Lullubū), country, 206, 208
Lulumu (Lulubū), 207, 351
_Luluppu_-tree, the legend of the, 76
_Lumaši_-constellation, 545
Luxor, 326
Lydia (Luddu), 390, 391
Machpelah, differences between Babylonian contracts and that referring to,
236-238, 524
Mad bull or vicious ox, death or injury from, 512, 513
Maër (and Suḫi), principality, 548
Magdala, 293
Maḫ, Babylonian goddess, 105, 106, 116
Mahler, Dr. Edouard, upon the stele of Meneptah II. and the Exodus, 306
Mair, city, 213, 214
Majesty, plural of, in addressing the king, 284;
(in the Chedor-laomer-legend it refers to the god)
Malgia, city, 211, 213, 214
Malik (Moloch), 156;
Maliku, 170 _n._
Mamre, 315
Mamun, khalif, 266
Man, creation of, 28, 40, 45, 47
Manamaltel, king, 154, 155
Manasseh (Minsê, Minasê), 340;
pays tribute to Esarhaddon, 386;
to Assur-banî-âpli, 389
Manda barbarians, Medes, 420
Manê, a messenger, 276
Manetho, 251, 274
Mankind, destruction of, in the Flood, 105;
in future other means to be used, 107, 112, 116
Man’s duties, 45
Marad, city, 415;
its patron-deity, 542
Marduk (Merodach), 33, etc.
Marduk-âbla-iddina (Merodach-baladan) of Babylonia, 379
Marduk-îriba, one of Belshazzar’s neighbours, 447
Marduk-nadin-aḫi, son of Nebuchadnezzar, 435
Marduk-našṣi-abli. _See_ Sirku
Marduk-šum-uṣur, son of Nebuchadnezzar, 434
Marduk-zakir-šumi of Babylonia, 379
Maritime nation, Babylonia a, 115, 116
Mari’u of Ša-îmēri-šu, 341, 342
Marking of slaves, 469
Marriage, 173-175, 186
Marriage-contracts, 173, 174;
of Princess Elmešu, 166;
of Neriglissar’s daughter, 442;
indispensable, 501
Martu = Amurrû, 312
Mašitess, lamentation of the, 477
Maspero, Prof., 253;
upon the Sallier Papyrus, 255 _n._
Matan-ba’al of Arvad, 386
Mattaniah (Zedekiah), 399
Max Müller, Prof. W., 274
Medes, the (Madâa, Umman-manda), in alliance against Assyria, 392;
at Haran, 411, 414;
_see also_ 341, 351, 364, 388
Media, 206, 346, 351, 368
Mediation, 53
Mediterranean, the, 340, 341;
states of, 365
Megasthenes, 401
Megiddo, 274;
Thothmes III. at, 271
Meissner, Dr., 547
Melakiyin, the, 266
Melchizedek, 324;
in Heb. vii. 3, 234
Meluḫḫa, 370, 375, 480, 481
Memphis, 263;
captured by Esarhaddon, 388, 389 _n._
Menahem (Meniḫimme, Minḫimmu), 350, 351, 374
Menander, 360
Menanu of Elam, 380
Menant, M. J., 560
Menasê (Manasseh), 386
Meneptah II. (Merenptah), the pharaoh of the Exodus, 269, 305
Mentiu (Bedouin), 270
Mer, Merri, a name of Hadad or Rimmon, 207, 212
Merchants of Babylonia killed, 281
Merodach, the god, his parentage, 33, 63;
the same as Nimrod, 126;
the gods’ champion against Tiamtu, 21, 22;
installed as king, 23 (163);
prepares for the fight, 23, 24;
attacks and conquers Tiamtu, 25, 537;
takes the Tablets of Fate, 25;
cuts Tiamtu asunder, 26;
orders the universe anew, 26 ff.;
receives new names, etc., 29-33;
his “incantation,” 41;
founds Babylon, Niffer, and Erech, 40, 41, 42, 126;
creator of the gods, 43;
his titles, 44;
explanations of some of his names, 45, 54, 56;
identified with other gods, 47, 58;
glorified above them all, 49;
prayer to be delivered into his gracious hands, 51;
the other deities mediators with him, and his manifestations, 53, 58;
heavenly bodies, identified with him, 55;
the benefactor of mankind, 56, 57;
the begetter of the gods, 533, 534;
his description, 529;
his weapons, 550;
names compounded with his, 57;
which in the end was almost = _îlu_, 58, 61;
he was the “great hunter,” 131;
worshipped especially at Babylon, 160, 407;
his yearly procession, 405;
his vengeance, 392;
his merciful nature, 486;
replaced in the end by Anu-Bel, 483
Merodach in West Asia, 279
Merodach-baladan, king of Babylon, 357, 361, 364, 370, 371, 373, 379, 380,
395
Merom, 305
Merwân II., khalif, 266
Mesech, 230
Mesha of Moab, 338
Mesopotamia, 204, 207, 336, 351
Messengers dying abroad, concerning, 283, 284
Mesu, the land of, 341
Methusael, 84
Middle class, the, 171
“Mighty king,” the, 234, 280
Milki-asapa of Gebal, 386
Milki-idiri, governor of Kedesh, 401
Milki-îli, Milkîli, 293, 297, 298, 299
Milku (Melech, Moloch), 279
Milton, 47
Minsê (Manasseh), 389
Mitâ of Musku (Mesech), 367
Mitanni (Naharain, Naharaim), 276, 277, 304;
its language not Semitic, 275;
vassal state, 537
Mitinti of Ashdod, 374, 376
Mitinti of Askelon, 355, 386
Mitunu, the eponyme of, Sennacherib’s campaign against Hezekiah, 378
Mnevis, the bull, 265
Moab (Ma’ab, Ma’abi), 322, 338, 370, 386
Moabites, the, 326, 374;
driven out, 313
Moloch, 279
Mond, Mr., his papyri, 539
Monotheism and polytheism in Babylonia, 47, 198, 533
Monotheistic names, 534;
systems, 541
Monster, the, 530
Monsters, produced by Tiamtu, 18 ff.
Month, Egyptian god, 262
Months and stars, 27
Moon, purpose of the, 27, 37
Moph or Noph (Men-nofr, Memphis), 264
Mordecai (Mardecai), 61, 436, 471
Moses, notes upon his date, 306;
was he saved by Teie’s daughter? 307
Mosque of Abraham at Urfa (Orfa or Edessa), 192
“Mother of Sin,” the, 532
Moumis (= Mummu), son of Tauthé and Apason, 17
Mouths of the rivers, a sacred place, 71, 108
Mugallu of Tubal, 290
Mugheir, regarded as Ur of the Chaldees, 147, 193;
but not altogether certain, 197
Müller, Prof. W. Max, 557
Mummu Tiamtu, the first producer.
_See_ Tiamtu
Muršil, Hittite king, 537
Muru, a centre of the worship of Hadad, 490
Muṣaṣir, 127
Mušêzib-Marduk of Babylonia, 380
Mushtah, 293
_Muškinu_, 536
Musku (Mesech), 371
Muṣrites, 329;
(Muṣrâa), 333
Muṣru, the land of, 354
Muṣur’i of Moab, 386
Muṣuru, Muṣur, Miṣraim (Egypt), 366, 370
Mut-Addu to Yanhama, 292
Mutallu, Hittite king, 537
Mut-îli = Methusael, 84, 245
Mut-zu’u, 279;
letter from, 286
Nabonassar, 347;
his death, 356
Nabonidus, “who is over the city,” witness to a contract, 436;
described on one copy as the son of the king, 436 _n._, 437
Nabonidus, king, his parentage, 410;
expeditions, and reference to Cyrus, 411;
said to have neglected the gods, 412;
and brought strange deities, 413;
his antiquarian researches, 413;
his son Belshazzar, 414, 447 ff.;
his daughters, 450, 451;
his flight before the army of Cyrus, and capture, 415;
sent to Carmania, 418;
his record of the downfall of Assyria, 392;
of the death of Sennacherib, 537 ff.;
other inscriptions, 411, 414;
tablets dated in his reign, 444-451;
his pious works, 445, 446;
Berosus upon his reign, 410
Nabopolassar, king, supposed to have been a Chaldean, 396;
his alliance with the Medes, 392, 397;
marches against Nineveh, 392, 393, 397;
his connection with Syria, 397;
he builds the two great walls of Babylon, 410;
his guardian-god, 533;
frees Akkad from Assyrian yoke, 558
Nabû-balaṭ-su-iqbî, the father or ancestor of Nabonidus, 410, 437
Nabû-bêl-uṣur, governor, 346
Nabû-kain-âḫi, secretary of Belshazzar, 447, 448
Nabû-nadin-zēri, 356
Nabû-ṣabit-qâtâ, servant of Neriglissar, 438;
Laborosoarchod, 443;
and Belshazzar, 448 ff.
Nabû-šarra-uṣur, one of Nebuchadnezzar’s captains, 434;
a secretary of Nabonidus, 445
Nabû-šum-iddina, secretary of Neriglissar, 440
Nabû-šum-ukîn, Babylonian king, 356;
a priest of Nebo, 442
Nagitu, the three cities called, 373, 380
Naharaina, Naharaim (Upper Mesopotamia), 270, 271, 272, 274, 288, 296,
304.
_See_ Nahrima, Narima, Na’iru
Naḫarâu and Nahor, 551
Nahor, the city of, 204
Nahor, 551;
traditions concerning, 146
Nahrima (Naharaim), 296.
_See_ Naharaina
Nahr-Malka, 158;
referred to by Mr. Rassam, 159
Nahum upon the fall of Nineveh, 393
Na’iru (Mesopotamia), 341, 351
Nal mountains, 351
Names given to Merodach, 30-32
Names of captives, 302
Nammu, a river-god, 43
Namri, 336, 346, 347
Namyawaza, an Egyptian vassal, 290, 293
Nannar(a), worshipped at Ur and Haran (Ḫarran), 147, 160, 219 ff.;
hymns referring to him, 194, 195
Naphtali, 353
Napḫu’ruria, Napḫuri (Amenophis IV.), 281, 282
Naram-Sin conquers Elam, 124
Narima (Naharaim), 288
Navigation, Babylonian, 470, 512
Naville, Prof. E., 253, 305;
upon the stele of Meneptah II., 306
Nebo identified with Merodach, 58;
takes part at the coming of the Flood, 104;
worshipped at Borsippa, 160, 409, 415;
named also Lag-gi, 370;
his titles, 343
Neb-mut-Râ (Amenophis III.), 276
Nebuchadnezzar (Nebuchadrezzar), son of Nabopolassar, 392;
marries Amytis, sent against the army of Egypt, 397;
aids, with his brother, in the restoration of the temple E-sagila, 398;
mounts the throne, 398, 399;
affairs in Palestine, Syria, Egypt, etc., 399-402;
his dreams and the golden image, 403, 404;
his buildings, 405-407;
his sons, 408;
was Nabonidus his son-in-law? 407, 437, 438;
tablets dated in his reign, 432-440;
his offerings, 433;
his use of divination, 247;
his name, 558
Nebuzaradan, 400, 558 ff.
Necho of Memphis and Sais, 389 _n._
Nefer-titi, the Egyptian name of Tâdu-ḫêpa, 276
Negeb, the, 272
Negligence, loss or damage from, 496, 513
Nemitti-Bêl, wall of Babylon, 405
Nephayan, commander-in-chief at Syene, 539 ff.
Nergal, Nerigal, god of war, etc., 279, 330;
identified with Merodach, 58;
worshipped at Cuthah, 160;
and in Alašia, 278
Nergal-sharezer, 408, 409
Nergal-ušêzib of Babylonia, 380
Neriglissar (Nergal-šarra-uṣur), son of Bêl-šum-iškun, 409, 438;
cattle-owner, 339;
trader, 440;
banker, 441;
mounts the throne, 408, 409;
his daughter’s marriage, 442;
tablets dated in his reign, 441-444;
his death, 410
Net, Merodach’s, wherewith he catches Tiamtu, 24, 131, 550
Nibhaz, god of the Avvites, 129
Nîbiru, planet Jupiter, 27
Nicolas of Damascus upon Abraham, 147
Niffer (Calneh), non-existent at the beginning, 39;
built by Merodach, 41;
called Nippur (Niffer), 124;
its temple-tower, 136;
its streets and houses, 188, 189;
the daughter of Niffer laments, 477, 478
Nimmalḫê, an Amorite captive, 302
Nimmuaria (Neb-mut-Râ, Amenophis III.), 276
Nimrod, son of Cush, his power and kingdom, 118, 119;
the same as Merodach, 126, 127, 129, 130;
“the mighty hunter,” 131;
his land, 126;
how his name assumed this form, 129, 550;
Arabic Nimrud, 551
Nina, goddess, 64
Nin-aḫa-kudu, goddess, 41
Nin-edina, 77
Nineveh (Ninua), 376, 378, 387;
probably named after Nina, daughter of Ea or Aa, 64;
built by Asshur, 118, 126, 127;
earliest mention of, 491;
its destruction, 393
Nineveh-road, the, 384, 385
Nina-gala, goddess of Haran, 546
Nin-igi-azaga (Aa or Ea), 114
Ninip identified with Merodach, 58;
his names, 235, 236, 555;
worshipped near or at Jerusalem and in the west, 235, 278;
in the Flood-story, 101, 104, 107
Ninšaḫ inscription dedicated to, 220
Nin-Urmuru (?), 280;
possible reading _Bêlit-nêši_, 548
Nippuru, 28, 37.
_See_ Calneh, Niffer
Nisaba, the legend of, 76
Niṣir, the mountain on which the “ship” rested, 90, 106
Nisroch, the god Asshur, 129
Nitocris, queen, 407
Niy, city, 271;
elephant-hunting near, 273
Non-existent things at the beginning, 16, 39
Nudimmud (= Aa, Aê, or Ea), 18;
asked to subdue the Dragon, fails, 21;
an abode made for him, 26
Nuḫašše, 317;
an Assyrian district, 280
Nûr-îli-šu, builds and dedicates a temple, 162
Nûr-Rammāni (Nûr-Addi), king of Larsa, 218
Nusku, one of the gods of Haran, 202
Obelisk, the, emblematic, 265
Offerings, royal, to the gods, 433, 444-446
Officials’ rights, duties, and responsibilities, 493, 494
Offord, Mr. J., his cylinder, pl. vi. and p. 548;
his tablet, 559
Og of Bashan, 313
Omri (Ḫumrî), the “house of Omri,” 332;
“son of Omri,” 337, 339;
“land of Omri,” 341
On (Heliopolis), 258, 264;
the shrine of, 265
Opis on the Tigris, the battle of, 415, 416;
tablets dated at, 439, 450, 459
Oppert, Prof., 14;
his suggested Babylonian etymology of Abel, 82, 83;
dates from Hebrew sources, 332
Oppolzer upon the Sothis period, 307
Oracles (for Esarhaddon), 385;
(concerning Nineveh), 393
Osah (Ušû), 374
Osiris, Merodach identified with, 54;
worshipped at On, 264
Ostâu (Ostanes), 540, 543 ff.
Oxen, the hire of, 512
Padî of Ekron, 375, 376, 377
Palace, house bought for a, 441;
theft from a, 491, 492, 525