“Divine
Daughters,” the, 160
Divine honours paid to Egyptian rulers, 270
Division of property, 178-181
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.
Dress of the scribes in early Babylonia, 171, 172
Du-azaga, “the
holy seat,” 405
“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
Dûr-Ammi-zaduga, city, 172
Dûr-îlitess, lamentation of the, 478
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
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Dynasty of Babylon, 142, 152, 153;
Babylonia at the period of the, 169 ff.
Ea, the god, 17, 26, 56, etc.
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
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
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
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
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
Ellipu, country of, 341, 372
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Elmesum, princess, marriage-contract of, 166
Elmešum's letter to his father, 172
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
Enweduranki (Euedoreschos), 63, 77, 538, 539
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
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, an Assyrian temple, 328, 340
E-ša-turra, a temple at Su-anna, 433
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
[pg 575] Babylon, 136, 138,
139, 406, 559;
and shrine of E-sagila, 398, 560
E-temena-ursag, temple, 213
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
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
Fall? did the Babylonians possess the legend of the, 79, 531, 532
Family of the hero of the Flood saved with him, 103, 115, 117
Famines in Egypt, 260, 261
Fear of God, lines upon, 50
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
Gad, the name, 246 (Gadu-ṭâbu)