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Babylonians and Assyrians

Chapter 15: Index
By A. H. Sayce
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A comprehensive survey of everyday life, institutions, and beliefs in ancient Babylonia and Assyria, organized into chapters on geography and population, family structures, education and funerary practices, slavery and labor, social manners, trades, housing, wages and prices, money-lending and banking, government and the military, law, letter-writing, and religion. The account draws heavily on contract tablets and private letters to reconstruct economic transactions, legal procedures, and personal relations, and includes practical appendices on measures and weights. Emphasis rests on social practices and documentary evidence rather than narrative history.

Index

Adoption, by the Sun-god, 36;
its prevalence in Babylon, 37;
concerning slaves, 38 ff.;
a way to citizenship, 41
Ainsworth, on coast-line formation, 2
Allat, goddess of under-world, 242;
in temples, 247
Amen, used in hymns, 245
Amorites, the, women, 18, 191;
colonies, 187 ff.;
position of, 189;
freedom of worship, 191-193;
country, 220
Apprentices, case of slaves, 71
Arad-Samas, position of his two wives, 27
Aramaic, taught in schools, 56
Architecture, features of Babylonian, 9, 10;
use of bricks, 90, 137;
character of, 91;
plans of houses, 92;
foundations, 92;
decorations, 93, 94;
dwellings of poor, 95;
stair-cases, 95
Army. See under “State”
Artists, position of, 166
Ashtoreth. See Istar
Assur, worship of, 256
Assyrians, compared with Babylonians, 8;
in regard to women, 18;
slave law among, 78;
slave contract, 79, 80;
features of architecture, 93;
gardens of, 95;
land, 123;
contracts, 124;
land measurements, 125;
money interest, 156;
coinage, 157;
medicine, 164;
military character of government, 172;
taxes, 175;
army, 181;
navy, 183;
letters, 217;
religion, 255
Astrology, 60;
letters relating to, 219
Baal worship, 233-234
Babylonia, its importance and situation, 1;
the increase of land, 2;
and its culture, 6;
various nationalities, 7;
Chaldean associations, ibid.;
Kassite influence, 7, 8;
the inhabitants, 9;
trade, ibid., 107;
architecture, 9;
writing, 10;
mode of burial, 10, 11;
cosmogony, 11;
fertility, 11, 12;
features of family life, 13 ff.;
dowry and divorce, 20 ff.;
polygamy, 27;
matrimony, 29;
inheritance, 31;
adoption, 36 ff.;
citizenship, 41;
names, 45 ff.;
literature, 52-54;
burial, 62-66;
slavery, 67 ff.;
labourers, 82 ff., 148;
manners and customs, 90 ff.;
manufactures, 107 ff.;
house property, 118-120;
land, 120 ff.;
money-lending, 157 ff.;
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bankers, 151;
barristers, 161;
government, 168 ff.;
army, 177 ff.;
law, 95 ff.;
letter-writing, 208 ff.;
religion, 231 ff.
Balawât, description of shrine at, 247
Bankers, firms of, 127;
and money-lending, 151 ff.
Barbers, position of, 105
Beating the bounds, custom of, 121
Bedâwin, as shepherds, 82;
wages of, 86
Beer-houses, 113
Bel, “The Illumination of Bel,” 60
Bel-Katsir, a plea set aside, 28;
his adoption, 37
Bel-Merodach and sonship, 36, 168, 169;
hymns and prayers, 260
Berachiel, his action for adoption, 38, 39
Berossus, origin of Babylon, 1
Bethels in shrines, 248
Bitumen, use of, 90;
prices of, 147
“Black Stone” of Mecca, 248
Borsippa, University at, 54;
“The Epic of the Creation,” 55
Branding in the sole, 44
Brick-makers, importance of, 137, 138
Burial, method of Babylonian, 10, 62 ff.;
place of, 62;
cemeteries, 62;
rites of, 63;
tombs, 64
Canaanitish Women, legal status, 19
Cape of Good Hope, 45
Carchemish, importance of, 156;
maneh of, 159
Carpenters, 134
Cemeteries, 62
Chaldea, the origin of, 7
Chariots for army, 178
Circumcision, 47
Clay-tablets, use of, 51
Colonies of Amorites, 187
Concubines, allowed, 25;
purchaseable, 26
Cosmetics, wide use of, 105
Cosmological beliefs, 243
Cremation, practised, 62
Cuneiform writing, 49;
use of clay, 50, 209;
chapters, 52;
origin, 209
Custom-house, place of, 111
Customs:
manner of building, 90 ff.;
furniture, 96 ff.;
dress, 99 ff.;
the cylinder, 102;
beards, 104, 105;
cosmetics, 105
Cylinder, worn on arm, 102;
designs on, 103;
patterns of, 103
Death, belief about, 242
Divorce, among Babylonians, 20-25;
position of divorced wives, 28;
instances, 196, 197
Doctors. See under “Medicine”
Dowry and divorce, 19 ff.;
penalties, 26;
reasons of divorce, ibid.
Dress, many varieties of, 99;
priest's, 101;
poor person's, 101;
women's, 102;
seal cylinder, 102
Duty, on sheep, 111;
levy of, 113
Ea, the god of Eridu, 3, 260;
founder of law, 195;
the spirit, 232;
the temple of, 236;
Semitic influence, 237
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Ebers Papyrus on medicine, 163
Eclipses mentioned, 219
Education:
a curious procedure, 44;
naming, ibid.;
schooling, 47 ff.;
bodily exercises, 48;
cuneiform writing, 47;
writing materials, 50, 51;
books, 52;
kinds of literature, 52;
school buildings, 54;
class education, 55;
dead languages taught, 56;
philology, 57;
history, 58;
other studies, 59