Mesopotamian architecture, its general forms, i. 126; their cause, 126; the mounds, 226; their universal employment for monumental buildings, 129; restricted use of piers and columns, 132; the absence of _orders_, 132; bad effect of rainstorms upon buildings, 133; thickness of palace walls at Nineveh, 138; the column, 141; capitals, 141; important part played by the arch, 141; its early invention, 143; frequent use of the vault, 144; total absence of structures in dressed stone from Chaldæa, 146; methods of bonding stone in Assyria, 147; absence of mortar from Assyrian buildings, 154; provision for drainage in mounds, 158; absence of direct evidence as to common forms of roof, 160; size of rooms, 179; methods of lighting, 180; size of doorways, 186; pavilions and other light structures, 192; column often used in them, 196; orientation, 311; plans, their peculiarities, 327. Metal dishes, ii. 324; engraved bowls or cups, 326; their quasi-Egyptian character, 330; their true origin, 336. Metallurgy, ii. 308; metals used in Mesopotamia, 308; the metal district of Western Asia, 312. Metrical system of Chaldæa-Assyria, i. 69. Michel, Charles, his account of the discovery of Nineveh, ii. 9. _Milliarium_, i. 257. Mines, military, employed by the Assyrians, ii. 64. Models for the sculptor, i. 215. Moloch, worshipped in Judah and Israel as well as Tyre and Sidon, i. 16. Montefik Arabs, i. 38. Monoliths, i. 258. Moon, Chaldæan observations of, i. 70. Mordecai, ii. 71. Mortar, its absence from Assyrian buildings, i. 154. Mosaics, quasi-M. at Warka, i. 278. Mossoul, yearly _villegiatura_ of its inhabitants, i. 199. Mouldings, i. 236, 245. Moulds for jewellers, ii. 356. Mountains, how indicated in the reliefs, ii. 207. Mousasir, i. 394. Mousta, church at, i. 168. _Mudjelibeh_, see _Kasr_. Mugheir, i. 38, 159; arches at, 222; plan of temple at, 312; ii. 34, 256, 308. Müller, Ch., i. 16. Müller, Max. quoted, i. 20. Müller, Ottfried, i. 233. Müntz, Eugène, ii. 364. Musesinip, cylinder of, ii. 273. Mylitta, _see_ Istar. Myrrh, brought from Arabia, ii. 373. N Nabonassar, i. 71. Nabopolassar, i. 50, 92; his restoration of Babylon, 134; ii. 200. Nabou, i. 83. Nabounid, his discovery of the angle stone of the temple of Ulbar, i. 315; ii. 58. Nahar-Hammourabi, i. 40. Nahar-Malcha, i. 40. _Nahr-el-Kelb_, ii. 231. Nahum quoted, i. 51; ii. 313, 372. Nana, i. 83. Nebbi-Younas, i. 7, 47; palace built by Assurbanipal still hidden there, 48; ii. 44.