Index.
Aa, Aê, Ea (Aos), 17, 26, 56, 61, 77;
? the same name as Yâ, 59, 112;
transferred to Merodach, 32, 113;
his other names and titles, 62;
abode and form, 62, 63;
offspring, attendants, and consort, 63, 64;
parentage, 17, 64;
god of handicrafts, rivers, and water, the sea and life therein,
62, 63;
ever ready with counsel, 64;
warns Pir-napištim of the coming of the Flood, commands him to
build a ship, and tells him what to say to the people, 102;
reproaches Ellila, 107;
deifies Pir-napištim, 107, 108;
worshipped at Eridu, 160;
month Iyyar dedicated to him, 65;
figures of Aa, 247
Aa (Aê, Ea), Yâ, Ya'u, names containing, 59, 546
Aah-mes, Egyptian captain of marines, 270
Aah-mes, Pharaoh, 269, 270
Aa-ibur-sabû, Babylon's festival street, 405, 472
Abdi-Aširta (Abdi-Aširti, Abdi-Ašratum, Abdi-Aštarti), the
Amorite, 278, 293;
the forms of his name, 313;
writes to the king of Egypt, 314
Abdi-li'iti of Arvad, 374
Abdi-milkutti of Sidon beheaded, 386
Abdi-tâba of Jerusalem, 233;
in a different position from Melchizedek, 235;
writes to the king of Egypt, 294, 295, 297-299;
see also 293
Abed-nego (Abed-nebo), the Babylonian name of Azariah, 129, 403
Abel-Beth-Maachah, 352, 353
Abēšu' (Ebisum), king, 153, 155;
his daughter hires a field, 167
Abi-baal of Samsimuruna, 386
Abil-Addu-nathānu, life of, 459 ff.
Abi-nadib (Abinadab), 438, 439
Ablum, “son,” as a personal name, 547
Abram, Abraham, his parentage, meaning of his first name, and
traditions concerning him, 146, 147, 196;
a Chaldean or Babylonian, 147;
probable Assyrian form of his name, 148;
the importance of his period, 149 ff.;
his seeming mistrust of the sons of Heth, 150, 151;
was there a movement towards monotheism in his time? 198, 199;
the Sabeans dedicate a chapel to him, 203;
the field of Abram, 552
Abrech, Sayce's explanation
of, 258
Absence of names of Egyptian kings, 250
Abubu, one of the weapons of
Merodach, 24
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Abu-habbah (Sippar), 158, 411
Abydenus, 63, 384, 385, 393
Abyss, the, measured by Merodach, 26.
Accad, a city of Nimrod's kingdom, 118.
Accho, 277;
lawless acts of the people, 281, 282, 360, 374
Accusation, false, 501 (127)
Adad-'idri, 329;
resists the Assyrian king, 334, 335;
= Ben-Hadad, 337
Adad-nirari of Assyria, 279
Adad-nirari, king of Nuḫašše, 317
Adad-nirari III., king, 339, 342, 344;
inscriptions of, 340, 341, 343
Adam, various etymologies of the word, 78;
adam in the bilingual story of
the Creation, 78, 79
Addu (Hadad), 157, 170, 277
Adoption, 173, 175 177, 463, 465, 508, 509, 525, 553 ff.
Adram(m)elech, 378, 384, 385
Aesculapius, the serpent, and the magic herb, 109 n.
Agad, Agadé, 124, 412, 422;
its temple-tower, 136;
misfortunes sung, 477.
Agaditess, lamentation of the, 477
Agents and travelling merchants, laws concerning, 495
Agricultural implements, theft of, 513
Ahab (Ahabbu of the Sir'ilâa), 329-331, 335, 337, 338
Ahaz and Tiglath-pileser, 353, 356
Ainsworth, W. F., his description of the ruins of Haran, 200
Akizzi, king of Qatua, 289-290, 317
Akkad (Accad), 119;
references to the country and its language, 121, 412;
the ideograph for, 122;
in early times a collection of small states, 123;
names of their capitals, 124;
the gods of, 415;
revolt in, 415;
weeping in, 416
Akkad, the city (Agadé), 124, 135
Akkadian, Akkadians, 119, 120, 121;
probably migrants, 134;
will overthrow the nations, 123;
their language that of most of the earlier inscriptions, 124;
its gradual disuse, 125;
disappearance of their specific racial type, 125;
their literature current also in Assyria, 126;
their laws retained, 125;
transcription and translations of inscriptions, 219-221
Al bêth Ninip, “the city of the temple of Ninip,” 278
Allala-bird, Ištar breaks his wings, 96
Allat, the temple of, 182
Alliance by marriage, 276
Amāna, the god Ammon, 278
Ama-namtagga, “the mother of sin,” 532
Amanus mountains, 349, 368
Amaru, a name of Merodach, 54
Amasis, pharaoh, Babylonian vassal, 401
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Amen-em-heb, officer of Thothmes III., 272
Ameni (Amen-em-ha), inscription of, 261
Amenophis II., 273;
Amenophis III., 274, 316;
Amenophis IV., 269, 293, 299, 302;
his names, 303
Amherst of Hackney, Lord, his tablet mentioning Ostanes, 544
Amki, the cities of, 288, 289, 317
Amminadab (Ammi-nadbi) of Beth-Ammon, 389
Ammi-ṭitana, king, 153;
extent of his dominions, 155;
letter from, 165;
lord of Amurrū, 215
Ammi-zaduga, king, 153;
tablet dated in his reign, 168, 332
Ammonites (Amanians), 329, 333
Ammurabi, a form of the name Hammurabi, 209
Ammurapi (Hammurabi), 210
Amna, a name of the sun-god, 144
Amon (the god Ammon), 278
Amoria (the land of the Amorites), 155, 205, 206, 207, 208, 374,
422
Amorite, Amorites, 156, 157, 300;
in Babylonia, 169, 277, 310;
tribute from the, 328, 341;
their kings do homage to Cyrus, 422;
their deities, 156, 170 n.;
names, 170
Amorite tract, the, 169, 312
Amorite, an, the father of Jerusalem, 316
Amosis, the prince who knew not Joseph, 307
'Amq, identified with Amki, 289
Amraphel (Hammurabi), 125, 152;
identified with Hammurabi by Prof. Schrader, 209;
explanations of the final l, 211;
colophon-dates of his reign, 211-214;
his successor, 153, 187, 188
Amtheta, mother of Abram, 146
Amu, the ethnic name of the “impure” Hyksos kings, 265
Amurrū (the land of the Amorites), 122, 134, 155, 205, 206 (207),
208, 328, 341;
ruled over by Sargon of Agadé, 215;
claimed by Ḫammurabi, 215;
ruled by Ammi-ṭitana, 311;
the cuneiform ideographs for, 122, 311, 312;
used for “west,” 311
Amurrū (the god), 156, 312
Amurrū (personal name), 157
Anamimi, the spring of, 305
“An eye for an
eye,” etc., 509, 522
Animals created by Merodach, 40;
animals sent into the ark, 103, 117;
animals held in honour at On, 264, 265
Ankh-kheperu-Ra, “the beloved” of Amenophis IV., 303
Anman-ila, king, 54 n., 154
Annihilation, the, of Assyria, 393
Ansan, city, 411, 420, 421
Anšar and Kišar, production of, 16;
their names, 65;
connection of Anšar with Asshur, 66;
identity of the two deities, 66;
similar names, 67
Anšar and the revolt of Tiamtu, 20
Antiochus (Epiphanes), tablet referring to his reign, 480, 561
Anu, god of the heavens, 16;
asked to subdue Tiamtu, 20;
fails, 21;
mentioned with Ištar, 41;
worshipped at Erech, 160, 231;
Merodach founds a place for him, 26;
he joins with other deities to send a flood, 101
Anu-Bêl, the god, 482, 483
Anunitum, goddess of Sippar, 160;
Nabonidus' and Belshazzar's offerings to her temple, 445, 450
Anunnaki (spirits or gods of the earth), creation of, 40;
present at the Flood, 104
Aos (Aa, Aê, or Ea), 17.
See Aa
Apam'a (Apameia), city, 484
Apason (Apsū, the primæval ocean),
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husband of Tauthé (Tiamtu), 17
Apharsathchites, the, 391
Apsū (= Apason), the primæval ocean, the abyss, 17;
non-existent at the beginning, 39;
its fountain, 41, 44;
E-sagila there, 40, 43;
the abode of Tammuz, 43
Arabia, Sennacherib, king of, 378, 381
Arabians (Arbâa), 329, 333, 388, 391;
help Sennacherib, 382
“Arabic”
dynasty, the, 169
Aramaic dialects, 140;
papyri, 539 ff.