Arandaš, Hittite king, 537
Ararat (Urarṭu), 127, 336, 347, 351, 367, 368
Araske (Nisroch, the god Assur), 378
Arbaces, the Scythian, 393
Ari, the land of the Amorites in Sumerian, 312
Arioch, 164;
identified with Eri-Aku, 209
Arioch, the king's captain, 403
Ark (ship), command to build the, given by Aê (Ea, Aa), 102, 117;
description of the, 103;
entered by Pir-napištim, his family, etc., 103;
given into the hands of a pilot, 104;
stopped by the mountain of Niṣir, 105;
Bel's anger on seeing it, 106;
its building and provisionment, 103, 115
Armenia, 311, 344, 373;
Sennacherib's sons take refuge there, 378
Arpachshad, possible etymologies of, 143, 144 n.
Arrapha (Arrapachitis), 345, 346
Arsakā (Arsaces), departs to Arqania, 484
Arsâm (Arsames), 539, 542
Artaxerxes, friendly to the Jews, 428;
his death, 429
Artificers of the ark saved in the vessel, 103, 115, 117
Aruru, the goddess of Sippar-Aruru, 43, 44;
aids Merodach to create the seed of mankind, 40;
creates Ea-banî, 93;
her names, 546
Arvad, city, 272, 322, 328, 386, 390
Arvadites (Arudâa), 329, 374
Asari-lu-duga (Merodach), 54, 155
Asaru or Asari (Merodach), 54, 143
Asenath, the name, 258;
legend concerning her, 259
Ashdod, 322, 369, 370, 376, 386
Ashdodites (Asdudâa), 374
Ashtoreth, Ashtaroth, 156, 157, 278, 313
Askelon, 277, 297;
conquered by Meneptah II., 306, 374, 386
Asnapper (Assur-banî-âpli), 391;
letter apparently addressed to him, 210
Aspāsinē (Hyspasines), Kharacenian king, 482, 483
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Assarachoddas (Esarhaddon), 378
Asshur, builder of the cities of Assyria, 118
Asshur (Aššur), city, creation or foundation of, 28, 38, 374,
422;
earliest mention of, 490;
revolts, 345, 346;
land of, 340
Aššur, the national god of the Assyrians, 202, 329, 340;
Delitzsch's etymology of, 66
Aššur-âḫâ-iddina (Esarhaddon), 392
Aššur-banî-âpli, 129;
letters to, 201, 410;
restores the temple of Nusku at Haran, 202;
see also 251;
refers to Sennacherib, 382;
his reign, 388-392;
his palace discovered, 394
Aššur-dan, king, 344;
wars in Babylonia, etc., 345
Aššur-êtil-îlāni-ukînni, 392
Aššur-mulik (Aššur-munik), 385
Aššur-nadin-šum, son of Sennacherib, made king of Babylon, 379;
his deposition, 380
Aššur-naṣir-apli, I., 327
Aššur-naṣir-âpli II., 327;
attacks Carchemish, 321;
marches to the Mediterranean, 328
Aššur-nirari II. marches to Hatarika, Arpad, 345;
and Namri, 346
Aššur-uballiṭ to Amenophis III., 282
Aššur-uttir-aṣbat = Pitru, 329
Assyria, Assyrians, 122, 123;
spoke the same language as the Babylonians, 126;
their origin, 126;
character, rulers, artistic skill, 128;
invasion by, 331;
revolt of, 345, 374;
downfall of, 391 ff., 395;
Christians of, 485
Assyro-Babylonian language, the, widely known, 140, 275
Aštarte (Istar) and the Asherah, 314
Astyages captured by Cyrus, 411
Ašur-nadin-âḫi of Assyria, 283
'Atar-'ata ('Atar-ghata), Tar-'ata, Atargatis, or Derketo, 203
Atargatis, goddess of Haran, 203
Aten, the sun's disc, its suggested etymology, 303
Atra-ḫasis (Gk. Xisuthrus), a name of Pir-napištim, 107, 117;
the coming of the Flood revealed to him in a dream, 107
Augury from entrails, 240
Avaris, the Hyksos shut up in, 252;
the centre of their rule, 254;
taken by the Egyptians, 270
Avitus of Vienne, Bishop, 47
Aziru, 279, 293, 313, 315
Azriau or Izriau (Azariah), 348, 349
Baal-zephon (Ba'ali-ṣapuna), 349;
(Ba'il-ṣapuna), 369
Baba (Beby), 261;
his inscription, 262
Babel = Babylon, 118, 135
Babel, Tower of, supposed, 44, 132-141, 398
Babylon, founded by Merodach, 40;
principal centre, 124;
Dynasty of Babylon, 142, 152, 153;
city destroyed by Sennacherib, 380, 381;
Jehoiachin carried to, 399;
the gods of Akkad enter, 415;
at the time of the Captivity, 471-473;
the proposed new capital under Alexander the Great, 476;
its walls dismantled under the Seleucidæ, 418;
as revealed by the German excavations, 560;
the Church at, 485;
tablets dated at, 432, 440-444, 448, 449, 459, 460, 464, 466, 478
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“Babylon and the
Bible,” 525, ff.
Babylonia (Sumer and Akkad, Shinar), 118, 119;
majority of inscriptions Semitic, 119;
federated under Ḫammurabi, 149;
change in its rule, 152;
under Assyrian rule, 327, 356, 357, 371, 379, 380, 386, 391;
under Cyrus, 419 ff.;
Darius and his successors, 424 ff.;
the Greeks, 475 ff.;
Kharacenians, 481;
Parthians, 484
Babylonia at the time of Abraham, 171, 347
Babylonian, Babylonians, character, 150;
dress, 171;
manners, 172, 391;
racial characteristics, 119, 120;
downfall of their empire, 415;
fought in the army of Cambyses, 467;
their religion, 49 ff., 159 ff.;
gods worshipped at a late date, 479
Babylonian Chronicle, the, 361, 383, 385
Bactrian slave-girl, the, 471
Bāgā-asā, brother of Hyspasines, 483
Baghdad, the Christians of, 126
Bagohi (Bagoas, Bagoses), 539 ff.
Ball, the Rev. C. J., 54;
compares Akkadian with Chinese, 121
Barbers and slave-marking, 511
Baruḫi-îlu (? Baruchiel), 458
Bashan, the plain of, 277
Bashmurites, origin of the, 266
Bêl, “the
lord,” a name given to Merodach, 32, l. 116, 54;
= Baal, Beecl, etc., 55;
as god of lordship and dominion, 58;
his dislike for Pir-napištim, 102;
his anger at the escape of the patriarch and his people from the
Flood, 107.
Bêl, “the
lord” = Ellila (Illil) = Illinos, 17;
called “the
father,” 32, l. 116
Bel and the Dragon, story of (= the Semitic Babylonian story of
the Creation), 20
Bêl-âbla-iddina, captain of Babylon, 469
Bêl-âḫê-iddina, one of Neriglissar's captains, 444
Bêl-bulliṭ-su (a scribe), 478
Bêl-êṭiranni, major-domo of Neriglissar, 438
Belos (Bel-Merodach), 17, 18;
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
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,
[pg
569] 337, 338, 342;
Ben-Hadad (god), 317
Bennu, the bird of Râ or Rê,
265
Bêri, the Ḫašabite, to the king of Egypt, 288
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-Dagon (Bît-Daganna), 375
Bethel (bêt-îli), the, at Haran, 201;
division of property declared in the, 180
Beth-Ninip, the city, 235, 299
Biamites, origin of the, 266
Bilingual Creation story, 38-41
Bin-Addu-'idri, 329.
See Ben-Hadad
Birds, sending forth of the, 106, 116
Birs-Nimroud (Tower of Nimrod), services in, 485.