The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches

Hyspasines, 481. See Aspāsinē

Ian-Ra (Ra-ian), was he the pharaoh of Joseph? 263

Iāwa, the ending of names, 470, 471.

See -yāwa

Ibi-Sân sells his daughter, 185

Ibi-Sin, king, 124, 152, 164

Ibi-Tutu, king (?), 230, 231

Ibscher, Herr, 544

Idalium, 386

Idigna, Akkado-Babylonian form of the name of the Tigris, 84

Igigi, address to Merodach by the, 29-33;

his title among them, 32

Ijon, 353

Ikausu of Ekron, 386

Ili-milki (Elimelech), 295

Ili-rabiḫ, 288, 289

Illegitimate children, acknowledgement of, 505, 506

Illinos (Illil, the god Bel), 17

Iltani, princess, hires a field, 167

Iltani, princess, sun-devotee, hires a reaper, 168

Ilu-bi'idi (Yau-bi'idi) of Hamath, 322, 363, 366

Ilu-dâya, the Hazite, writes to the king of Egypt, 288

Imgur-Bêl, wall of Babylon, 405

Immerum, king, 154

Immortality, the Chaldean Noah attains, 101, 108

“Impure,” the name given by the Egyptians to the Hyksos, 254

Inaction of the Egyptian king, 296, etc.

Ina-E-sagila-rêmat, daughter of Nabonidus, 450

Ina-êši-êṭir, Nebuchadnezzar's agent, 432

Incantation for E-zida (the Birs-Nimroud), 41;

against “sickness of the head,” 55;

to purify, 86

Incest, 504, 521, 522

India-House Inscription, extract from the, 138, 139;

references to Babylon, 405, 406

Inheritance, 178-181, 503-507;

of virgins, priestesses, etc., 508

Injuries, penalties for, to slaves, 509, 522;

to a woman, 510, 522;

in a quarrel, 509, 510, 522

Inscriptions, the Hittite, 317, 318

'Ir, the Hebrew for “city,” and uru, 241

Irḫulēni of Hamath, 329; = Urhi-lēni, 332;

resists the Assyrian king, 334, 335

Irnini, a god, 95

Irqata, rule of, 280

Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, 242

Išḫara, goddess, invoked, 433

Isidore of Charax, 192

Isin, Isinna (Karrak), city, 124, 211

Isis, 264

Isis-Hathor (Venus Urania), 264

Isqal(l)una (Askelon), 374, 386

Israel, 351, 352, 355;

on the monolith of Meneptah, 306

Israel, the name, probable Assyro-Babylonian forms, 157, 245

Israelites, allied with Ben-Hadad, 329-333, 337;

subject to Hazael, 342

Iššaku, “chief” (= patesi), 127

Ištar, 55;

her search for Tammuz in Hades, 65;

makes love to Gilgameš, 96;

her cruelty to her lovers, 96, 97;

sends a divine bull against Gilgameš and Ea-banî, 97;

which they kill, 98;

her grief on account of the Flood, 105, 116;

worshipped at Erech, 160;

her spouse Tammuz, 279;

Ištar's gate, at Babylon, 405, 559, 560

Ištar and the asherah, 278

Ištar of Babylon, 212;

Haran, 203;

Nineveh, 278, 491, 551

Ištara, goddess, 156

Išullanu, Ištar's treatment of, 97

Itu'u, on the Euphrates, 344

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Iyyar, the month of Ea (Aa, Aê), 65

Izdubar. See Gilgameš

Jabesh, 293

Jacob, Jacob-el, 157, 183, 243, 244, 547

Jaffa, Yabitiri guards, 285

Jah, 113, 535

Jahweh (Jehovah), 535

Janoah, 353

Jebus (Jerusalem), 323

Jebusites, 312, 323, 324

Jehoahaz, 342

Jehoiachin, captive in Babylon, 399;

released by Evil-Merodach, 408

Jehoiakim, 399

Jehoram, 338, 339

Jehu, “son of Omri,” 332, 337-339

Jensen, Prof., 140, 318, 546, 548

Jerabis (Carchemish), 317

Jerusalem (Uru-salim, Ursalimmu), 234, 277, 280, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379;

legend attributing its foundation to the Hyksos, 252;

Ahaz besieged there, 353;

invested twice by the Babylonians, 399, 400;

Temple destroyed, 400;

Temple polluted, 481

Jesus, brother of Johanan, murdered, 542

Jews (Yaudâa), 375;

at Damascus, 331;

last vestiges of their rule, 400;

Cyrus helped by, 416;

probably thought him a monotheist, 419;

names of Jews at Babylon, 470, 471;

why did they remain in the cities of their exile? 474 ff.

Jezreel, 338

Jilting, 504

Joash, king of Israel, 340, 342

Johns, the Rev. C. H. W., 551, 552

Joppa (Yappû). See Jaffa, Yapu

Joseph, the name, 243;

its probable meaning, 244

Joseph in Egypt, 255 ff.;

as viceroy, 260;

no native record of his administration, 253;

his death, 266, 267

Josephus, 359, 382, 408-410;

upon the Hyksos, 251;

the period of Joseph, 262;

the Amorites, 313;

the siege of Jerusalem, 377, 378;

the murder of the high-priest's brother, 542

Jotham, 355

Judah, 353;

one of the states regarded by the Assyrians as Hittite, 322, 386 (Yaudu)

Judeans (Yaudâa), 375. See Jews

Justin upon Abraham, 147

Kadašman-ḫarbe or Kadašman-Murus, 123;

transports the Sutites, 291

Kadesh, 279;

(Kidša), 300;

conquered by Seti I., 304;

(Kidiš), 401

Ka-dumu-nuna, the gate of E-saggil, 484

Kaldu (the Chaldean tribes in Babylonia), 341

Kalisch, 266

Kallima-Sin (now read Kadašman-ḫarbe), king, 276

Kames, king of Egypt, 269

Kamid-el-Lauz, 293

Kammusu-nadbi of Moab, 374

Kan'ana (Canaan), 304

Karanatum, her adoption, 177;

her name and that of Ashteroth Karnaim, 157

Kar-Adad (fortress of Hadad), 349

Kar-Duniaš, Kara-Dunias, Karu-Dunias (Babylonia), 120 n.;

ruled by Kudur-laḫgumal, 225;