Agbatana, _see_ Ecbatana. Ahmes II., ii. 339. Ahura-Mazda, i. 88. Alabaster, found near Mossoul, i. 120; its distribution, 121; its constitution, 121; its characteristics as a material for the sculptor, ii. 110. Alabastron, ii. 301. Alexander the Great, i. 54; ii. 382. Alexander Polyhistor, i. 51. Allat, i. 83, 345. Alphabet, invention of, i. 22. Altaï, i. 21. Altars, their characteristic forms, i. 236; with battlements, 255; circular, 256; sarcophagus-shaped, 256. Amanus, ii. 340. Amber, its absence from Mesopotamian remains, ii. 362. Amen, i. 78, 79. _Ament_, the Assyrian, i. 345. Amiaud, M., i. 361. Amoor, i. 19. Amphora, ii. 300. Amraphel, i. 36. Amulets, ii. 251. _Anabasis_ quoted, i. 361. Anaïtis, _see_ Oannes. Animals, grotesque and fantastic, in Assyrian Art, ii. 167–173; on the seals, ii. 279. Anthemius, i. 172. Antioch, ii. 286. Antiochus-Epiphanes, i. 33. Aphrodite, ii. 398. _Apollonius of Tyana_, i. 299. Apsou (or Apason), i. 83. Arade, ii. 265. Aramaic, or Aramæan, came into common use with the second Chaldæan Empire, i. 18. Aram-Naharaim, i. 3. Arbeles, Arvil (or Ervil), i. 6; ii. 48. Arch, frequent use of, i. 132, 221; invented in Chaldæa, 222; at Mugheir, 222; in the hanging gardens at Babylon, 223; in Sargon’s gateways, 224; in the sewers of the palaces, 227. Archivolt, enamelled, at Khorsabad, i. 290. Arioch, i. 36. Aristophanes, ii. 397. Aristotle, i. 71; his _Politics_ quoted in reference to the size of Babylon, ii. 56. Arithmetic, Chaldæan, i. 68; origin of the sexagesimal system, 68. Armenia, annexed by Assyria, i. 7. Arms, ii. 343. Arrian, his Indian history, i. 57. Artaxerxes Mnemon, i. 90. Artists, their social position in Mesopotamia, ii. 394. Aryans, said to compose part of the early Chaldæan population, i. 18. Aryballos, ii. 306. Asia Minor, ii. 172. Ass, the wild, in Assyrian sculpture, ii. 150. Asshur, the builder of Nineveh, i. 14. Assur, i. 83; the Assyrian god _par excellence_, 84; fell with Nineveh, 88. Assurbanipal, i. 36, 44; receives the homage of Gyges, king of Lydia, 44; his cruelty, 47; patron of literature and the arts, 47; his library, 47; numerous remains of sculpture dating from his reign, ii. 236. Assurbilkala, ii. 101, 203, 289. Assuredilani, i. 51. Assurnazirpal, i. 42; his statue in the round, ii. 126.