Gadlat, goddess of Haran, 203
Gala-Aruru = Istar the star = the planet Venus, 44
Galilee, attacked by Tiglath-pileser, 353
Galilee, South, invaded by Amenophis II., 273
Garizim, temple at, re-dedicated to Jupiter, 481
Garment, the vanishing, 23
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Garu, Petrie's identification of, 292
Gate of Istar at Babylon, 551, 552
Gates of city, judgment in the, 163
Gaza (Ḫazitu), 277, 376 386, 411;
Thothmes III. at, 271;
Yabitiri guards, 285;
Hanon of, 352, 363, 365, 366
Gazzāni (a ruler), 224, 325, 556
Gebal (Gublu), 278, 293, 313, 317, 322, 339, 386
Gebalite, whose brother drove him from the gate, 300
Gebalites (Gublâa), 350, 374
Gedaliah, governor of Jerusalem, put to death, 400
Gigîtum, Neriglissar's daughter, 442
Gilgameš, ancient hero, king of Erech, 73, 91;
the legend concerning him, 90 ff.;
and his friend Ea-banî, 92;
who consents to go to him, 94;
he seeks the place of Ḫumbaba, 94;
who is killed, 95;
Ištar makes love to him, 95, 96;
he reproaches her, 96, 97;
and she sends a divine bull against them, 97;
dreams concerning him, 98;
he mourns for Ea-banî and sets out on his great journey, 98;
he meets Ur-Sanabi, the pilot, and Pir-napištim, 99;
who tells him the story of the Flood, 101 ff.;
he is restored to health, 108, 109;
finds the magic plant, 109;
loses it, and reaches Erech, 110;
sees the spirit of Ea-banî, 111;
the new version of the legend referring to him, 547 ff.
Gilgameš-series, the getting together of the, 90
Gilu-ḫêpa, wife of Amenophis II., 276
Gimil-Sin, king, 124, 164
Gindibu'u, an Arabian tribe, 333
Girgashites, the, 310, 324-326
Gišdubar, Gišṭubar, Gisdhubar.
See Gilgameš
Glosses in the Tel-el-Amarna tablets, 234 n.
Gobryas (Gubaru, Ugbaru) of Gutium, enters Babylon, and appoints
governors there, 415, 417, 418, 419;
(goes) against ..., 416, 417;
receives the kingdom for Cyrus, 419
“God,”
names for, in the chief tongues of the ancient East, 170,
n.
Gods and their seats, 160, 415;
tithe granted to, 448;
processions of, 526;
they fear the Flood, 105;
those who joined Tiamtu, 20, 25;
their punishment, 25
Gods, figures of, found under the pavement of palaces, 247
Gods identified with Merodach, 58
Gods of On (Heliopolis), 264
Gods of the west of Asia, 277
“Gold, much
gold,” 277, 283
“Good
wishes,” the tablet of, 81
Government of states, 279
Greek words in Babylonia, 480
Greetings, Babylonian, 172, 452, 453, 454
Guites, 329;
(= Goim?), 332, 333
Gula, goddess of healing, 86, 472
Gutians, Gutites, 158, 170, 552
Gutû or Gutium, 206, 207, 415
Gyges' son, the dream of, 390
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Ḫabiri, the, 269, 291, 295,
296, 297, 538;
they possess the land, 299
Ḫaburu, city in Babylonia, 446
Hadad, 160, 277, 330;
of Aleppo, 329.
Ḫādara, Rezon's birthplace, 354
Hades, “the land
of no-return,” 65
Hagar, her position, 186;
parallels (with differences) to the case of, 174, 175, 185, 236,
524
Ḫamanu (Amanus), mountains, 328, 334, 336, 349
Hamath (Amatte), Hamathites (Amatâa), Irhulêni of, 329, 334;
districts of, 349;
Yau-bi'idi (Ilu-bi'idi) of, 322, 363;
see also 348
Ḫammatites (? = Hamathites), Eni-îlu of the, 350
Ḫammurabi (Amraphel), changes during his reign, 125;
its length, 153;
tablets dated therein 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187;
references to his conquest of “Mair and Malgia,” 187;
other references to him, 209-215, 238;
his code of laws, 491-515;
his image on the stele, 487;
the benefits he had conferred on the cities of Babylonia,
488-491;
his opinions of his reign, 515, 516;
his curse upon any destroying or changing his record, 517-519
Ḫammurabi-ḫêgalla, canal, 211
Ḫammurabi-nuḫuš-niši, canal, 212
Ḫammurabi-Samši, name, 164, 187
Ḫana-galbat, Ḫani-galbat, king of, 283;
the caravans of, 286;
Esarhaddon fights (? against his brothers) there, 384, 385
Ḫanni, messenger of Egypt, 301
Haran born at Ur of the Chaldees, 144
Haran (city, the Bab. Ḫarran), a centre of lunar worship, 147,
195;
Terah and his family migrate thither, 192, 195;
its probable origin, 199, 200;
its ruins, 200;
elephants in the neighbourhood in early times, 200, 201;
its gods and temples, 201, 202, 534;
Esarhaddon (?) crowned there, 201, 202;
Nabonidus restores the temple of Sin, 202;
its renown in later days, 202, 203;
the city besieged, 411;
deities restored, 414
Ḫarḫar, called by the Assyrians Kar-Sarru-ukîn, 367, 368
Ḫatānu, servant of Neriglissar, 439
Ḫatarika, Ḫatarikka, 344, 345, 349
Hatred of Bel for the hero of the Flood, 102, 113
Hatshepsut, queen regent, 271
Ḫatti, Ḫattî (Hittites, Kheta, people of Heth), 205, 288, 319,
341;
their depredations, 317;
ships of, used by Sennacherib, 379;
Syria and the Holy Land, 386.
Ḫattu-šil, (Kheta-sir), 320, 537
Haupt, Prof. Paul, upon the description of the ship or ark, 114
Hauran, the (Ḫauranu), 336
Hazael of (Ša-)Iamēri-šu (Damascus), 337, 338, 342
Ḫaza-îlu, 336, etc.
See Hazael
Heathen images, the, of Jacob's household, 247, 248
Heavens, Merodach arranges the, 27
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Hebrews, their ancestor and his language, 204;
in Egypt, 268;
did not leave with the Hyksos, 267;
their commonwealth, 327;
were they the Ḫabiri? 538
Hellenizing influence, the, of Antiochus Epiphanes, 480
Helpers of Rahab, the, 530
Hephaistos (Sethos), 381, 382
Herdsmen, their duties and liabilities, 213, 214, 524
Herodotus upon the Temple of Belus, 137, 405;
Sennacherib's expedition to Egypt, 381, 382;
Nitocris' architectural works, 407;
see also 342, 443
Heth, 368, 369; the sons of, 315.
Hezekiah (Ḫazaqiau), 375, 376, 377, 395
Hiddekel, the Tigris, Babylonian form of the name, 84
Hiding heathen images, 248
Hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Hittites, 317
Hilprecht, Prof. H. V., 124
Hire of animals for agricultural work, 514;
field labourers and herdsmen, 513;
fields, 495;
of a ship (by Belshazzar), 450;
(by Sirku), 470
Hired “from
himself,” 188
Hired men, their responsibilities, 513
Hiring of slaves and freemen, for money, 187, 188;
for produce, 188;
risks of the hirer, 191
Hirom (Ḫirummu) of Tyre, 350
Hittite, Hittites, 140, 205, 274, 277, 315-323, 341;
attack Tuneb, 316;
tributary, 272, 316, 320;
their architecture borrowed by the Assyrians, 323;
inscriptions, where found, 317;
their language, 537
Hittite, a, the mother of Jerusalem, 316
Holy Land, 340;
its state before the entry of the Israelites, 277
Home, the, of the Hittites, 318
Hommel, Prof., 14, 54;
suggests a connection of Ea, Aê, or Aa, with Ya'u (Jah), 113;
his early etymology of Arpachshad, 143;
his work upon Egyptian culture 144 n.;
the Hittite inscriptions, 318;
Gilgameš, 547;
Shinar, 549;
early names, etc., 555, 557
Hophra encourages Zedekiah against Nebuchadnezzar, 399;
marches to support him, 400;
deposed, 401
Horse, glorious in war, loved by Istar, 96
Hosea, Hoshea (Ausi'a), king, 354, 355, 359;
the prophet, 361
House of Belshazzar, its situation, 447
Household goods, 189;
gods, 247
Houses and cities, built by Merodach, 40
Houses, private, 188, 189
Howorth, Sir H., 427, 429
Hui, his tomb at Thebes, 303
Ḫulḫutḫulitess, lamentations of the 477
Ḫumbaba, apparently an Elamite, 94;
Gilgameš and Ea-banî seek his domain, 94, 95;
his end, 95
Ḫursag-kalama, Babylonian city, 415
Ḫursag-kalamitess, lamentations of the, 477
Husband, causing death of, 504
Ḫuṣṣiti-ša-Mušallim-Marduk, tablet dated at, 436
Hyksos, or shepherd-kings, legends concerning, 252;
their fear of an Assyrian (Babylonian) invasion, 251;
their policy in time of famine, 260;
quit Egypt, 252,
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at Tanis, 264;
those who remained reduced to subjection, 270;
their descendants, 266