Chabouillet, his _Catalogue des Camées_ quoted, ii. 90. Chafing-dishes, ii. 323. Chaldæa, primitive civilisation, i. 1; its size, 7; ethnic elements of primitive C., 16; its early population, 17–21; second C. empire, 52; sudden storms, 74; archaic period of its art, ii. 187; its classic age, 192. Chaldæan religion, i. 55; more obscure than that of Egypt, 55; its derivation from fetishism, 59; origin of the composite forms of gods, 60; astronomy compared with that of Egypt, 72; origin of its idols, 76; difficulty of establishing a Mesopotamian pantheon, 78; the composite figures of Egypt and Mesopotamia compared, 79; anthropomorphism of the Chaldæans franker then than that of the Egyptians, 80; premiership of successive gods, 84. Chaldæans (the priestly sect), described by Diodorus, i. 90; their archimagus, 91. Chalybes, ii. 312. Chamanism, i. 59. Chariots, war-, ii. 74; their construction, 75. Chariot-poles, ii. 344. Chastity, sacrifice of, at Babylon, i. 89. Chatra (or shatra), ii. 174. Chedorlaomer, i. 36. Chedornakhounta, i. 36. China, its civilisation compared with those of Egypt and Chaldæa, ii. 378–380. Chipiez quoted, i. 220. Chronology, Chaldæan and Assyrian, i. 36–41. Choisy, Aug., quoted, i. 172. Chosroes, i. 171, 185. Cicero quoted, i. 66, 71. Cimmerians, i. 44. Clermont-Ganneau quoted, i. 348; ii. 342. _Cloaca Maxima_, i. 233. Cloisonné shapes, ii. 202. Coffered ceilings, i. 294–304. Coffins, from Warka and Niffer, ii. 306. Colour, the use of, in decoration, i. 272; the use of in the human figures in the reliefs, i. 277. Columns, their restricted use, i. 132; their rarity due to want of stone, 200; their occurrence in the Sippara tablet, 202; sheathed in bronze, 205; bases, 214–217; figured upon gems, ivories, and bronzes, 220. Commerce, ii. 372. Composite forms of Assyro-Chaldæan gods, i. 63. Cones, coloured, used for wall-decoration in Chaldæa, i. 279; bronze, at Tello, 318; superseded cylinders as seals, ii. 276. Confucius, ii. 378. Corneto, i. 180. Corundum, ii. 260. Costume, Chaldæo-Assyrian, ii. 94. _Courban-Bairam_, feast of, ii. 38. Courtyards, at Khorsabad, ii. 16, 29. Cow, the, in Assyrian sculpture, ii. 143. Creil, ii. 381. Crenellations, i. 248; Place’s theory of their origin, 252; note by editor, 253; coloured ornament upon them, 254. Crete, ii. 51. _Crux Ansata_, ii. 120. Crystals, used for decorating furniture, ii. 323.