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429.Cylinders,489.Houses compared with Assyrian,525.Phœnicianseals,138.Letters on bronze,159.Workers in metal,161.Coast conquered by Assyrians,192.Tribute to Assyrian king,295.Trade with Babylon,430.Cylinders,489.Pine-applein bas-reliefs,281.Plasteron walls of palaces,421,530.Plough, Armenian,314.Poetryof Bedouins,266.Poole, Mr. Stuart, note on denarii,479.Potteryfrom Babylon,409.From Kouyunjik,480.Priest, Assyrian, sacrificing,191.Protestantreligion, extension of, in Turkey,331.Propylæumat Khorsabad,109.Pul, monuments of,498.Pyramidat Nimroud, excavations in,104.Q.Quarriesof alabaster,112.Quintus Curtius, description of Persian king,358.R.Raftsof skins,194,373.Rassam, Mr. Hormuzd,88.Rathaiyah, the wife of Suttum,219.Rawlinson, Col.,87.Sculptures purchased by,110.Discovery of annals of Sennacherib,117;of name of father of Sargon,291.Theory as to Babylon,407.Discoveries,492,etc.Records, chamber of,286.Of early Nimroud king,298.Nature of Assyrian,511.Rediff, meaning of term,236.Redwan, town of,44.ReshidPasha,20.Rich, Mr., description of Babylon,396,note.Sketch of the Birs Nimroud,404.Discoveries at Babel,408.Rishwan, an Arab Sheikh,214.Roads, Turkish,18.Babylonian,429.Romanrelics discovered at Kouyunjik,479.Ross, Dr.,380.S.Sabaco, seal of,134.Sabæanletters and dialect on Babylonian bowls,417.Sahiman, brother of Suttum,215,464.Saladin, birthplace of,374.Samarrah, town of,377.Samaria, name in inscriptions,498.Sand hills, moving,439.Sandwith, Dr.,16,337.Sardanapalus, or Ashurakhbal, his tomb,106.Name read by Col. Rawlinson,291.His records,290.Builds a city on the Euphrates,294.Campaigns of,294.Small statue of,299.His records,492,494.Sargon, name of,127, andnote.Name on glass vase,164.His cotemporary at Wan,329.Monuments of,498.Sassanianruins,377.Saulcy, M. de, investigations of,492.Sawof iron from Nimroud,163.Scarabson bronzes,164.Egyptian, discovered at Arban,233.At Nineveh,482.Sceptreof ivory found at Nimroud,164.Schools, Armenian, at Wan,331.In Turkey,332.Schulzmurdered,314.His account of Wan,322.Seals, Assyrian, discovered,132.Phœnician and Egyptian,132.Of king of Egypt,134.Importance of, in East,490,note.Seleucia, ruins of,461.Seleucusfounded Seleucia,427.Seleucidæ, remains of period of, at Kouyunjik,480.Semiramisfounded Wan,321.Sennacheribsuperintending transport of colossi,95.His annals discovered,117.Name of,126.His Signet,135.His sculptures at Bavian,173.His buildings at Shomamok,186.Name at Shereef-Khan,484.Date of accession,494.His monuments,528.Sert, river of,38.SevenSleepers, the cave of,173.Shabbak, sect of,181.ShahanBey,22.Shaheen, a falcon,386.Shammar, Gebel, present state of,434.Shalmaneser, name of,127, andnote.Name on Monuments,499.Shat-el-Arab.SeeEuphrates.Shell, engraved, from Wurka,453.Shedadi, mound of,247.Sheikh-Adi,72.Ceremonies at,74.SheikhTahar,310.Shepherds’ Gate, tradition of, at Wan,327.Shereef-Khan, excavations at,484.Sharutinian, the,295.The Shairetana of the Egyptians,ib.note.Shomamok, plain of,146.Excavations in,186.The Kasr,187.The Gla,188.Shushan, city of, represented,366.Name of, in inscriptions,367.Sidon, name of, in inscriptions,120,296.Mariners of, employed by Sennacherib,124.Workers in metal of,161.Singara, coin of,207.SeeSinjar.Suidones,431.Sinjar, the,205,207,269.Skinsused for rafts, and to cross rivers,373.Snake-charmer, a,212.Socketsof gates of palace,137.Solomon, bronze vessels of,161.Jewish kingdom under,510.His buildings compared with Assyrian,517.Form of his house,518.Statue, an entire, discovered,299.Steamer, English, on Tigris,381.Stewart, Mr., Babylonian bowls from his collection,414.Storms,201,245,301.Studs, in mother of pearl and ivory,151.Subhanmountain,316.SuleimanAgha, visit to,252,257.Summer, in Assyria,301.Summaichah, village of,465.Susiana, conquest of,124.Rivers of,365.SeeElam.Susubira, king of Chaldæa,124,475.Suttum, a Bedouin Sheikh,196,198,202.His mare,213.His encampment,215.Rathaiyah, his wife,219.Adla, his wife,244.His hawk,249.His honesty,470.His death,ib.note.Syria, conquered by Sennacherib,120.Syriaccharacters on Babylonian bowl,415.T.Tablets, set up by Sennacherib,120.At Bavian,174.At Nahr-el-Kelb,176,note.Of Assyrian Kings,290.At Wan,322.From Wurka,453.Tai, tribe of, attack on Nimroud,142.Visit to,144.Talent, the Babylonian,486, andnote.Talmud, the,416.Tekrit, town of,378,468.Tel Ermah, mound,202.Tel Kef, village of,54.Templeof Jerusalem, compared with Assyrian palaces,518.Tent, an Arab,144,216.Thief, a Bedouin,246.Tracing,269.Throne, a,128.Discovery of,165.Tiglath Pileser, monuments of,498.His annals said to be discovered,498.Tigris, the river,47,200.Changes in course of,71,note.Sources of Eastern branch,344.Head waters of,344.Description of banks of,374.Navigation of,378.Timour Mirza,384.Tin, mixed with bronze,160.Tkhoma, district of,354.Tokkari, conquered by Sennacherib,124,193.Tombs, in the rock,31.At Bavian,175.Mussulman, 967.At Wan,322,325.At Kouyunjik,480.Tortures, represented,367.Towerat Nimroud discovered,104.Tomb in,106.Treasurechamber discovered,150.Trebizond,19.Tripod, stands of bronze,151.Trumpetspeaking in bas-reliefs,94.Tulip, an Assyrian ornament,155.Turkey, reforms in,22.State of frontiers,317.Turks, destructive policy of,145,374,381,454.Turtle, a, taken in the Khabour,245.Tyre, mariners of, employed by Sennacherib,124.Name of, in inscriptions,296.U. V.Vaultat Nimroud,138.Venus, the Assyrian, images of,388.Verhan-Shehr,260.Umjerjeh, encampment at,260.Volcano.SeeKoukab.W.WaliBey, a Turcoman chief,147.Wallsrepresented,193.Of Kouyunjik,539.Walpole, Hon. F.,300.Wan, first view of,29,316.Jewish families taken there by Tigranes,316.Arrival at,319.History of,322.Inscriptions at,325.List of kings from monuments of,327.Language of inscriptions of,329.Weights, Assyrian, discovered at Nimroud,486.Well, a, at Kouyunjik,66.At Nimroud,150.Wine-strainerof bronze,152.Women, Arab, their dress,217.Of the Milli tribe,260.Singing, represented in bas-reliefs,367.Wothaiyah,435.Wurka, coffins discovered at,451.X.Xenophon, retreat of the Ten Thousand, remarks on,47,50,55,note,188.Description of Cyrus,357.Xerxes, inscription of, at Wan,329.Destroyed the temples of Babylon,420.Y.Yavan, the Greek islands,120.Mariners of, employed by Sennacherib,124.Yedi Klissia, convent of,335.Cuneiform inscriptions at,336.Yusuf Cawal,17,40,171.Yezidis, state of,17.Reception by,40,42.Bronze bird of,46.A meeting with,53.Sacred ceremonies of,74.A book of the,80.Customs of,81.A marriage,171.Of the Sinjar,208.Their houses,209.Their dress,210.On Persian frontiers,317.Z.Zabriver,146,183,209,345.Zerga, plain of,200.ZibariKurds,307.Chiefs of,308.Zibbliyah, ruin of,459.Zidkaha, king of Sidon,121.Zobeide, tomb of,379.Tribe of,390.


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