Ṣili-Ištar and Iribam-Sin, their dissolution of partnership and the lawsuit following, 183-185

Silili, mother of the horse beloved of Ištar, 96

Ṣilli-bêl of Gaza, 376, 386

Siluna, country of, 340

Similes, Babylonian, 52

Ṣimirra (Simyra), 348, 351

Simti-Šilhak, king, 219

Simyra (Ṣimirra, Ṣumuru), 277, 293, 313, 348, 351, 363

Sin, the Moon-god, identified with Merodach, 58;

worshipped at Ur and Sippar, 160, 194, 195;

also at Haran, 201, 202, 411

Sin-idinnam of Larsa, 165, 169, 218

Sinjar, 304

Sin-mâr-šarri-uṣur, servant of one of Nebuchadnezzar's sons, 435

Sin-mubaliṭ, king, 153;

tablets of his reign, 178, 179, 180, 181

Sin-šarra-iškun (Saracos), the last king of Assyria, 392, 396

Sippar or Sippara (now Abu-Habbah), discovered by H. Rassam, 394;

its four names, 70;

supposed to be Sepharvaim, 158;

dated tablets from, 211;

captured by Tiglath-pileser, 347;

by Cyrus, 415, 416;

its gods, 415;

see also 38, 63, 484

Sippara of Eden, 70

Sippar-Amnanu(m), 161, 552 ff.

Sippar-Ya'ruru (Aruru), 161, 165, 553

Sirara, forests of, 387

Sir'ilites (Sir'ilâa, Israelites), 329, 330, 332, 335, 337

Širru, land of, 206, 207

Sirû, land of, 206, 207

Sisters, the, of Belshazzar, 450, 451

Slander, 504 (law 161)

Slavery, 182, 185-187, 515

Small Hittite states, 322

Smerdis, 424

Smith, George, publishes the Babylonian Creation-story, 14;

the original of Berosus' Canon, 84; the Gilgameš-series, 90;

conducts the Daily Telegraph expedition, 90;

and finds a fragment of the second Flood-story, 117;

arranges the series, 91, 93, 95;

identifies Arioch, 209;

concerning Shalmaneser IV., 359, 362

Smiting a father, 509 (law 195)

So, king of Egypt, 359, 365, 366

“Son of his God,” the, 86

“Sons of God,” the, 85

Sons of Syrian chiefs educated in Egypt, 274

Sons, the, of Yakinlû of Arvad, 390

Sothis period, 307

Spells, 491 (laws 1 and 2)

Sphinxes, Hyksos, 264

Spiegelberg upon the stele of Meneptah II., 306

Spirit of Ea-banî, the raising of, 110

Spirits of heaven and earth, invocation of, 56

Spirits of the departed, their lot, 111

Stars, creation of, 27

States regarded by the Assyrians as Hittite, 322

Steindorff's translation of Zaphnath-paaneah, 257

Stele of Meneptah II., extract from the, 306

Stephen, Saint, 192

Storage and deposit, 500 (laws 120 ff.)

Storm at the coming of the Flood, description of the, 104, 105

Streets of Babylonian cities, 188, 189

Šu-anna (Su-ana), a part of Babylon, foreign gods taken thither, 414, 420;

Cyrus enters and receives tribute there, 420, 422;

see also 433

Šu-ardatum, 299

Subarte, 318

Šubbiluliuma, Hittite king, 537

Sūḫu and Maër, states, 319, 556

Šulmanu-ašarid (Shalmaneser), 239

Sutî (Sutite, Sutites), 123, 158, 170, 291, 292, 368;

brigands, 283

Šûzubu (Nergal-usêzib), 380

Swallow, the, sent forth, 106

Swearing by the gods and the king, 162, 163, 174 ff.

Syncellus, 393

Syria, Egyptian successes in, 270, 271;

(Rameses II.), 304;

Syria in the time of Amenophis III., 274;

on the stele of Meneptah, 306;

Shalmaneser II. there, 336 ff.;

Adad-nirari, 341;

Shalmaneser III., 344;

Tiglath-pileser, 347, 351;

Sargon, 367;

Sennacherib, 373 ff.

Syrian campaigns, Thothmes I., 270

Tabal (Tubal), 367

Tablet of Good Wishes, the, 81

Tablets of Fate given to Kingu, 19;

taken by Merodach, who presses his seal upon them, 25

Tablets referring to Chedorlaomer, Tidal, and Arioch, 223 ff.

Tâdu-hêpa, princess of Mitanni, asked in marriage (? for Amenophis IV.), 276

Takhsi, near Aleppo, 273

Takrētain (?), tablet dated at, 439

Talents, parable of the, 525

Talmud, the, 195 n., 203

Tamessus, 387

Tamar, the case of, 525

Tammuz of the Abyss, 43, 63, 65

Tâmtu, the coast-land, 122, 123

“Throne-bearers” of the gods, 82

Thureau-Daugin, Morsiem F., 218

Tiamtu, the sea-coast, 230