Lawsuits, 182, 184
Layard, Sir A. H., discoverer of the palaces of Nineveh and Calah;
and Rassam, his helper and successor, 394
Laz (goddess), 211
Leasehold system, the, 190
Lebanon, elephants in, 201;
Saniru (Shenir) before, 336;
see also 387
Legal precedents, 190, 191
Legend of Asenath, 259
Legend of Chedorlaomer, 227-230
Legend of Râ-'Apop'i, 254
Lenormant, inscription published by, 216
Letter concerning an inscription of Ammurapi (Hammurabi), 210
Letters from Abdi-ṭâba (Ebed-ḫiba, Ebed-ṭâba, Ebed-tob), 294-299;
Ammi-ṭitana, 165;
Akizzi of Qatna, 289;
Ašur-uballiṭ, 382;
Bêri, 288;
Burra-buriaš, 281;
Ilu-dayan, 289;
Mut-zu'u, 286;
Yabitiri, 284;
Yidia, 286, 287;
the king of Egypt, 300;
the king's daughter to Queen Aššu-râaitu, 392
Leviathan, 530
Leviticus xviii. 18, the tablet illustrating, 545
Lex talionis, 509, 522
Lêya, a captive, 302
Libation, the, of the Babylonian Noah, 106
Lieblein upon the pharaohs of the Oppression and the Exodus, 269
Life at Tanis in Egypt, 264
Lingua franca, the, of Western Asia, 140
Lion (divine), loved by Ištar, 96
Liver, the, in divination, 247
Loan to make up purchase-money and its repayment by instalments, 460, 461, 464, 465
“Lord and Lady, my,” 479
Lud, 391
Ludlul the Sage, lines by, 50
Lugal-zag-gi-si, early Akkadian king, 123, 124
Luli of Sidon, 373
Lullubite, Lullubites, 123, 325
Lulubū (Lullubū), country, 206, 208
Lulumu (Lulubū), 207, 351
Luluppu-tree, the legend of the, 76
Lumaši-constellation, 545
Luxor, 326
Lydia (Luddu), 390, 391
Machpelah, differences between Babylonian contracts and that referring to, 236-238, 524
Mad bull or vicious ox, death or injury from, 512, 513
Maër (and Suḫi), principality, 548
Magdala, 293
Maḫ, Babylonian goddess, 105, 106, 116
Mahler, Dr. Edouard, upon the stele of Meneptah II. and the Exodus, 306
Mair, city, 213, 214
Majesty, plural of, in addressing the king, 284;
(in the Chedor-laomer-legend it refers to the god)
Malgia, city, 211, 213, 214
Malik (Moloch), 156;
Maliku, 170 n.
Mamre, 315
Mamun, khalif, 266
Man, creation of, 28, 40, 45, 47
Manamaltel, king, 154, 155
Manasseh (Minsê, Minasê), 340;
pays tribute to Esarhaddon, 386;
to Assur-banî-âpli, 389
Manda barbarians, Medes, 420
Manê, a messenger, 276
Manetho, 251, 274
Mankind, destruction of, in the Flood, 105;
in future other means to be used, 107, 112, 116
Man's duties, 45
Marad, city, 415;
its patron-deity, 542
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Marduk (Merodach), 33, etc.
Marduk-âbla-iddina (Merodach-baladan) of Babylonia, 379
Marduk-îriba, one of Belshazzar's neighbours, 447
Marduk-nadin-aḫi, son of Nebuchadnezzar, 435
Marduk-našṣi-abli. See Sirku
Marduk-šum-uṣur, son of Nebuchadnezzar, 434
Marduk-zakir-šumi of Babylonia, 379
Maritime nation, Babylonia a, 115, 116
Mari'u of Ša-îmēri-šu, 341, 342
Marking of slaves, 469
Marriage, 173-175, 186
Marriage-contracts, 173, 174;
of Princess Elmešu, 166;
of Neriglissar's daughter, 442;
indispensable, 501
Martu = Amurrû, 312
Mašitess, lamentation of the, 477
Maspero, Prof., 253;
upon the Sallier Papyrus, 255 n.
Matan-ba'al of Arvad, 386
Mattaniah (Zedekiah), 399
Max Müller, Prof. W., 274
Medes, the (Madâa, Umman-manda), in alliance against Assyria, 392;
at Haran, 411, 414;
see also 341, 351, 364, 388
Media, 206, 346, 351, 368
Mediation, 53
Mediterranean, the, 340, 341;
states of, 365
Megasthenes, 401
Megiddo, 274;
Thothmes III. at, 271
Meissner, Dr., 547
Melakiyin, the, 266
Melchizedek, 324;
in Heb. vii. 3, 234
Meluḫḫa, 370, 375, 480, 481
Memphis, 263;
captured by Esarhaddon, 388, 389 n.
Menahem (Meniḫimme, Minḫimmu), 350, 351, 374
Menander, 360
Menanu of Elam, 380
Menant, M. J., 560
Menasê (Manasseh), 386
Meneptah II. (Merenptah), the pharaoh of the Exodus, 269, 305
Mentiu (Bedouin), 270
Mer, Merri, a name of Hadad or Rimmon, 207, 212
Merchants of Babylonia killed, 281
Merodach, the god, his parentage, 33, 63;
the same as Nimrod, 126;
the gods' champion against Tiamtu, 21, 22;
installed as king, 23 (163);
prepares for the fight, 23, 24;
attacks and conquers Tiamtu, 25, 537;
takes the Tablets of Fate, 25;
cuts Tiamtu asunder, 26;
orders the universe anew, 26 ff.;
receives new names, etc., 29-33;
his “incantation,” 41;
founds Babylon, Niffer, and Erech, 40, 41, 42, 126;
creator of the gods, 43;
his titles, 44;
explanations of some of his names, 45, 54, 56;
identified with other gods, 47, 58;
glorified above them all, 49;
prayer to be delivered into his gracious hands, 51;
the other deities mediators with him, and his manifestations, 53, 58;
heavenly bodies, identified with him, 55;
the benefactor of mankind, 56, 57;
the begetter of the gods, 533, 534;
his description, 529;
his weapons, 550;
names compounded with his, 57;
which in the end was almost = îlu, 58, 61;
he was the “great hunter,” 131;
worshipped especially at Babylon, 160, 407;
his yearly procession, 405;
his vengeance, 392;
his merciful nature, 486;
replaced in the end by Anu-Bel, 483
Merodach in West Asia, 279
Merodach-baladan, king of Babylon, 357, 361, 364, 370, 371, 373, 379, 380, 395
Merom, 305
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Merwân II., khalif, 266
Mesech, 230
Mesha of Moab, 338
Mesopotamia, 204, 207, 336, 351
Messengers dying abroad, concerning, 283, 284
Mesu, the land of, 341
Methusael, 84
Middle class, the, 171
“Mighty king,” the, 234, 280
Milki-asapa of Gebal, 386
Milki-idiri, governor of Kedesh, 401
Milki-îli, Milkîli, 293, 297, 298, 299
Milku (Melech, Moloch), 279
Milton, 47
Minsê (Manasseh), 389
Mitâ of Musku (Mesech), 367
Mitanni (Naharain, Naharaim), 276, 277, 304;
its language not Semitic, 275;
vassal state, 537
Mitinti of Ashdod, 374, 376
Mitinti of Askelon, 355, 386
Mitunu, the eponyme of, Sennacherib's campaign against Hezekiah, 378
Mnevis, the bull, 265
Moab (Ma'ab, Ma'abi), 322, 338, 370, 386
Moabites, the, 326, 374;
driven out, 313
Moloch, 279
Mond, Mr., his papyri, 539
Monotheism and polytheism in Babylonia, 47, 198, 533
Monotheistic names, 534;
systems, 541
Monster, the, 530
Monsters, produced by Tiamtu, 18 ff.
Month, Egyptian god, 262
Months and stars, 27
Moon, purpose of the, 27, 37
Moph or Noph (Men-nofr, Memphis), 264
Mordecai (Mardecai), 61, 436, 471
Moses, notes upon his date, 306;
was he saved by Teie's daughter? 307
Mosque of Abraham at Urfa (Orfa or Edessa), 192
“Mother of Sin,” the, 532
Moumis (= Mummu), son of Tauthé and Apason, 17
Mouths of the rivers, a sacred place, 71, 108
Mugallu of Tubal, 290
Mugheir, regarded as Ur of the Chaldees, 147, 193;
but not altogether certain, 197
Müller, Prof. W. Max, 557
Mummu Tiamtu, the first producer.
See Tiamtu
Muršil, Hittite king, 537
Muru, a centre of the worship of Hadad, 490
Muṣaṣir, 127
Mušêzib-Marduk of Babylonia, 380
Mushtah, 293
Muškinu, 536
Musku (Mesech), 371
Muṣrites, 329;
(Muṣrâa), 333
Muṣru, the land of, 354
Muṣur'i of Moab, 386
Muṣuru, Muṣur, Miṣraim (Egypt), 366, 370
Mut-Addu to Yanhama, 292
Mutallu, Hittite king, 537
Mut-îli = Methusael, 84, 245
Mut-zu'u, 279;
letter from, 286
Nabonassar, 347;
his death, 356
Nabonidus, “who is over the city,” witness to a contract, 436;
described on one copy as the son of the king, 436 n., 437
Nabonidus, king, his parentage, 410;
expeditions, and reference to Cyrus, 411;
said to have neglected the gods, 412;
and brought strange deities, 413;
his antiquarian researches, 413;
his son Belshazzar, 414, 447 ff.;
his daughters, 450, 451;
his flight before the army of Cyrus, and capture, 415;
sent to Carmania, 418;
his record of the downfall of Assyria, 392;
of the death of Sennacherib, 537 ff.;
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other inscriptions, 411, 414;
tablets dated in his reign, 444-451;
his pious works, 445, 446;
Berosus upon his reign, 410
Nabopolassar, king, supposed to have been a Chaldean, 396;
his alliance with the Medes, 392, 397;
marches against Nineveh, 392, 393, 397;
his connection with Syria, 397;
he builds the two great walls of Babylon, 410;
his guardian-god, 533;
frees Akkad from Assyrian yoke, 558
Nabû-balaṭ-su-iqbî, the father or ancestor of Nabonidus, 410, 437