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Social life among the Assyrians and Babylonians

Chapter 12: INDEX
By A. H. Sayce
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The author surveys the peoples, geography, and institutions of ancient Assyria and Babylonia, contrasting northern Assyrian and southern Babylonian character and origins, including Sumerian, Semitic, Kassite, and Chaldean elements. Chapters describe settlement patterns, agriculture and irrigation, urban trade and maritime commerce, education, marriage and funerary customs, markets, money-lending, tenancy, slavery, labour, crafts, professions, and popular religion. The account draws on inscriptions and monuments to reconstruct social structure, daily occupations, legal and economic relations, and religious practices, emphasizing how environment and ethnic mixture shaped community life and administrative organization.

INDEX

  • Accadian language, the, 35.
  • Adoption, 52.
  • Agents, House, 72.
  • Anointers, 120.
  • Aristocracy, the, 90.
  • Army, the, 91.
  • Ashtoreth, the goddess, 111.
  • Asshur, the god, 124.
  • Assyria, description of, 10;
  • stone in, 20;
  • slavery in, 82;
  • religion in, 123.
  • Assyrians, the, clothing of, 9;
  • history of, 13;
  • character of, 14;
  • religion of, 16, 123;
  • decay of, 17;
  • writing of, 31.
  • Babylonia, description of, 10;
  • use of bricks in, 18;
  • religion in, 106;
  • Semites in, 109.
  • Babylonians, the, clothing of, 9;
  • history of, 12;
  • character of, 14;
  • religion of, 16, 106;
  • condition of, 17;
  • houses of, 21;
  • education of, 30;
  • writing of, 30;
  • learning of, 36, 41;
  • their system of farming, 85;
  • trades and professions of, 89;
  • their industry, 104.
  • Barachiel, a slave, case of, 78.
  • Barge, State, 96.
  • Bel-katsir, story of, 53.
  • Belshazzar, contract of, 65.
  • Blacksmiths, 97.
  • Books, sacred, 30, 112.
  • Boots, 27.
  • Borsippa, the library of, 40.
  • Bowmen, 93.
  • Bricks, the use of, in Babylonia, 18.
  • Building, cost of, 97.
  • Bulls, winged, 114.
  • Bunanit, the case of, 101.
  • Burial, mode of, 54.
  • Cavalry, 91.
  • Chaldeans, the, 11.
  • Chariots, 91.
  • Charms, belief in, 113.
  • Cherubs, 115.
  • Civil Service, the, 90.
  • Clay tablets, 30.
  • Clothes, 9, 61.
  • Commissariat, the army, 94.
  • Coppersmiths, 97.
  • Costume, 24.
  • Cotton, use of, 24.
  • Credit, the system of, 68.
  • Demons, belief in, 107.
  • Devils, belief in, 114.
  • Divorces, 46.
  • Doctors, 98.
  • Dowry, 46.
  • Dragoman, the, 38.
  • Dress, 24.
  • Elders, 120.
  • Eridu, a centre of religion, 109.
  • Etymology, 38.
  • Evil spirits, belief in, 113.
  • Farming, the system of, 85.
  • Festivals, 121.
  • Fish, 63.
  • Foundling, story of a, 42.
  • Furniture, 22.
  • Gardens, 14, 23.
  • Grain, 62.
  • Hair, mode of wearing the, 28.
  • Head-dress, 27.
  • Heaven, belief in, 116.
  • High priests, the, 120.
  • House of the males, the, 51.
  • Houses, description of, 21;
  • deeds relating to, 69.
  • Hymn to the Moon-god, 118.
  • Infantry, 92.
  • Interest, rate of, 67.
  • Irrigation, use of, 23.
  • Israelites, the, learning of, 44.
  • Istar, the goddess, 111.
  • Jewels, use of, 26.
  • Judges, 100.
  • Kassi, the, 12.
  • King, the, position of, 90.
  • Lawyers, 100.
  • Learning, state of, 36.
  • Lens, discovery of a, 33.
  • Libraries, 40.
  • Lilat, a demon, 114.
  • Lords, 114.
  • Maneh of Carchemish, the, 82.
  • Market-places, 58.
  • Marratu, 11.
  • Marriage customs, 45.
  • Medicine, the practice of, 98.
  • Merodach, the god, 109.
  • Merodach-baladan, 11.
  • Money-lending, 66.
  • Moon-god, a hymn to the, 118.
  • Mul-lil, the god, 109.
  • Musicians, 103.
  • Muslin, use of, 24.
  • Nabonidos, 39.
  • Nail-marks, 41.
  • Naming of a child, the, 52.
  • Nebuchadnezzar, a prayer of, 117.
  • Nergal-ritsua, the case of, 75.
  • New Moons, observance of, 122.
  • Nipur, a centre of religion, 109.
  • Partnerships, 63.
  • Physicians, 98.
  • Poets, 103.
  • Polygamy, 45.
  • Prayer of Nebuchadnezzar, 117.
  • Prices of various articles, 59.
  • Priests, 108, 120.
  • Princes, 90.
  • Prophets, 120.
  • Proverbs, use of, 88.
  • Rab-shakeh, the, 36.
  • Rafts, 95.
  • Religion, description of, 106.
  • Resen, 10.
  • Rowandiz, Mount, 116.
  • Sabbaths, observance of, 122.
  • Sacrifices, 121.
  • Sargon I, origin of, 85.
  • Semites, the, in Babylonia, 109.
  • Ships, 95.
  • Shoes, 26.
  • Slaves, position of, 74;
  • sale of, 79;
  • classes of, 84.
  • Slingers, 93.
  • Songs, 87.
  • Sorcerers, 107.
  • Stone, free use of, in Assyria, 20.
  • Streets, 63.
  • Syllabary, the, 33.
  • Tammuz, the god, 85.
  • Taxes, 68.
  • Temples, description of, 119.
  • Tithes, 122.
  • Totemism, 108.
  • Trumpets, 104.
  • Vegetables, 24.
  • Vestments, 123.
  • Wines, 61.
  • Women, position of, 42.
  • Year, the, 86.