Tigris and Euphrates, creation of, 40;
mentioned in Gen. i., 69;
rivers of the district of Sippar, 158;
and of Babylon, 471
Tigris, the, flows close to Nineveh, 393;
Cyrus and the districts of, 422;
Elamite incursions thither, 483.
Ti'imūṭusu, son of Aspāsinē, 483
Til-garimme (Togarmah), 271, 368
Tilla (= Ararat), 122, 208
Timašgi (regarded as Dimaški = Damascus), 290
Tindir (Babylon), 420, 421
Title of the Gilgameš legend, 91
Togarmah (Tilgarimme), 271, 368
Topography of Babylon, 552
Tower of Babel, the Mohammedan legend of the, 551
Transcription of lines referring to Antiochus's rule in
Babylonia, 553
Tree-felling, 497 (law 59)
Towns in the ancient East, 188
Trade between Canaan and Babylonia, 281
Translation of the hero of the Flood, 108, 116
Translation, Semitic, inserted in the divided Akkadian lines, 38
“Tree of the
drink of life” = the vine, 75
“Tree of
knowledge,” 73;
the Babylonian parallel of the, 77
“Tree of
life,” 73;
a Babylonian parallel of the, 75
Trees, sacred, of the Babylonians and Assyrians, 74-77, pl. III.
Tribes classed as Amorites, 311
Tribute of Carchemish of the Hittites, 321
Tuckwell, the Rev. J., 551
Tudḫula, the probable Babylonian form of Tidal, 222, 223, 224,
227, 231, 232, 537, 554
Tukulti-Ninip I. annexes Babylonia, 327, 371
Tunep, Syrian town, 272;
its resistance, 305
(Dunip, Tenneb)
Tutamû, king of Unqu, 348
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Tutu, a name of Merodach, 30;
the explanation given, 45
Two wives, marriage-contracts for, 174, 175
Tyre (Ṣurru), 277, 338, 339, 360, 373, 386, 400;
blockaded by Nebuchadnezzar, 490;
Ṣûru =? Tyre, 401;
contract dated at, 401
Tyre, the land of, conquered by Adad-nirari, 341
Tyre, Old (Palaetyrus), 360
Tyrians, the land of the, pays tribute, 328, 337, 350;
resists Shalmaneser IV., 360
Ube, Syria of Damascus, 290
Udumu, 310;
(Edom), 322, 341, 370, 374, 386
Ugga, the god of Death, 36
Ukabu'šama, daughter of Nabonidus, 451
Ukîn-zēr (Chinzeros), 356, 357
Umbara-Tutu, father of Pir-napištim, 102
Umman-manda, the, 230, 392
Ummu Ḫubur, a designation of Tiamtu, 18
Unlawful pasturing, 496, 521
Unskilful surgical treatment, penalties for, 510, 511
Unug, Akkadian form of the name of Erech, 84
Upaḫḫir-bêlu, eponymy of, 372
Upê, Upia (Opis), 439, 458, 459
Upê-rabi, “Opis
is great,” name, 182
Upšukenaku, the place of assembly of the gods, 21
Ur (of the Chaldees), 124;
its temple-tower, 136, 193-195;
= Urie or Camarina, 146, 147, 196, 197;
identified with Mugheir, 193;
possibly really Uri or Ura (Akkad), 197;
rebels against Assyria, 386;
Nabonidus's inscriptions at, 414, 415;
name of its wall or fortification, 220
Ura, god of pestilence, 107;
legend of Ura, 122;
“Ura the
unsparing,” 228;
invoked by Evil-Merodach, 409
Ura-gala and the ship (ark), 104
Uraš, god of Dailem, 279;
the great gate of, 468
Urdamanê, son of Sabaco, 389
Urfa (Orfa), the traditional Ur of the Chaldees, 192, 193
Uri or Ura = Akkad, 122, 134
Urie (Ur of the Chaldees), 146;
a centre of lunar worship, 147
Urikku of the Kûites, 350
Uriwa, the Akkadian form of Ur (Mugheir), 193 ff.
Ur-kasdim (Ur of the Chaldees), 193.
Urraḫinaš, Hittite city, 320
Ursalimmu (Jerusalem), 375, 376
Ur-Šanabi, the pilot or boatman, accompanies Gilgameš to see
Pir-napištim, 99;
takes the hero to be cleansed, 109;
returns with him to Erech, 109, 110;
Sur-Šanabi, 548
Urṭū (apparently short for Urarṭu), Ararat, 122, 208
Uru (in Uru-salim), probably from the Akkadian, 241
Uru-gala, the image of, 480, 561
Uruk
supuri, “Erech the walled,” 91
Uru-ku, the dynasty of, 154
Urumaians (Hittites), 318
Uru-salim (Jerusalem), 234, 239
Uštan(n)u (Ostanes), 543 ff.
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Veterinary surgeons' fees and penalties, 511
Vicious cattle, laws concerning, 512, 523
Village settlements, growth of, 171
Vine of the Babylonian Paradise, 71
Violation, penalty for, 501, 521
Virgins, priestesses, and hierodules, 508
Vowel-changes in the Akkadian dialects, 241
Waidrang, governor of Elephantine, 539
Wall built at Ur (Uriwa) by Eri-Aku, 220
Ward, Dr. W. Hayes, conductor of the Wolfe expedition, 70
“Warehouse of
the king's gifts,” the, 445
Water, concerning the king's, etc., 446
“Waters of
death,” the, 99
Way, the Rev. Dr. J. P., 155
Wedding-gift, the bridegroom's, 553
West called Amurrū (Amoria, the land of the Amorites), 205
West-land, no record of an expedition to, in the reign of
Ḫammurabi, 214, 215;
his claim to this tract, 215
West-Semitic deities, 156;
names, 157
Whitehouse, Mr. F. Cope, 263
Wife of Pir-napištim prepares the magic food, 108, 109
Wife-seeking, Abraham's, for his son, parallels to, 524
Wild animals damage by, 512, 523
Winckler, Dr. Hugo, 235, 297, 537, 538
Wine-women, 499 (laws 108 ff.)
Witnesses necessary, 500, 501;
names of, 162, 237, 238, etc.
Working an ox unlawfully, 512, 523
Working-off debt, 500 (law 117)
Workmen, hire of, 188, 514
Xerxes, forms of his name, 428
Yaana or Yawani, a Hittite, 369, 370
Yâ, Ya'u, Au, Aa, names containing, 59
Yabitiri, governor of Gaza and Jaffa, 279;
to the king of Egypt, 284
Yahu (Jah, Jehovah), temple of, at Elephantine, 539 ff., 544
Yakinlû of Arvad, 389;
sends his sons to Assur-banî-âpli, 390
Yakubu, Yakubi, Yakub-îlu, Ya'kubi-îlu (Jacob, Jacob-el),
and other similarly-formed names, 157, 183, 243-245, 554
Yamutbālu, Emutbālu, conquered by Ḫammurabi, 211, 212, 214, 216
Yanḫamu, an Egyptian official, 285, 295, 298
Yanzû, king of Na'iri or Mesopotamia, 367
Yapu, Yappu (Jaffa), 285, 375
Yaraqu traversed by Shalmaneser, 334, 349
Yašupum, Yašup-îlu (Joseph, Joseph-el),
and other similarly-formed names, 157, 243
Yatnana (Yaanana), Cyprus, 387
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Ya'u, Yaum, etc., 535, 536;
suggested etymology of, 113;
supposed to have been identified with Aa or Ea, 18
Yau-bi'idi (= Ilu-bi'idi) of Hamath, 322, 363, 366
Yaudu, Yaudi (Judah), 370, 386, 389
Yaum-îlu, name, meaning “Jah is God” (Joel), 199 n.
-yāwa, names ending in, 458, 465, 470, 471
Yeb (Elephantine), 539 ff.;
meaning of the name, 544
Yedoniah of Elephantine, 539 ff.
Yehohanan (Johanan or John), 540, 542
Yidia of Askelon to the king of Egypt, 286, 287
Yoke of Assyria thrown off by Nabopolassar, 550
Young, plant to make the old, 109
Zabibé, queen of Arabia, 350
Zabû, Zabium (king), 153;
tablets dated in his reign, 174, 183, 237
Zagaga, god of battle, identified with Merodach, 58;
temple of, at Kiš, 213, 214, 415, 489
Zaphnath-paaneah, Steindorff's translation of, 257
Zēru-kênu-lîsir, son of Merodach-baladan, 386
Zēr-panitum, consort of Merodach, 160, 212;
swearing by, 433;
invocation of, 466;
see also 472, 479