Pamir, i. 21. Paradise (or Park), ii. 51. Parasol, ii. 203. Parthians, succeeded by the Sassanids, i. 57. Paving, three systems of, i. 238. Pediment, i. 394. Péretié, his bronze plaque, i. 349. Percy, Dr., ii. 312. Pergamus, ii. 286. Pericles, ii. 382. Περὶ φύσεως, the Greek philosophic poems of the sixth century, ii. 397. Perrot and Chipiez, _Art in Ancient Egypt_ quoted, i. 13, 23, 61, 86, 208, 213, 222, 234, 246, 248, 268, 322; ii. 131–135. Persepolis, i. 88. Phidias, i. 58; ii. 286. Philostratus quoted, i. 299, 379. Phœnicia, ii. 172. Phœnicians, their invention of the alphabet, i. 23. Pictography, i. 31. Piers, their restricted use, i. 132. Pigments, ii. 294. Pilasters, i. 216. Pinches, T. G., i. 195; quoted, ii. 213. Pivots (door-pivots), i. 240. Place, Victor, quoted, i. 116, 118, 138; his discovery of a cedar beam at Khorsabad, 140, 148; his opinion on the roofing question, 163; statement as to the timber found in the excavations, 164; his discovery of fragmentary vaulted ceilings among the ruins, 165, 173, 183, 186–189, 191, 192, 202, 208, 224, 243, 248, 266; loss of his collections in the Tigris, 285; on the plan of Sargon’s palace at Khorsabad, ii. 32; his description of the French consulate at Mossoul, ii. 71; his opinion as to the use of colour in Assyrian architecture, 246. Planisphere, fragments found at Kouyundjik, i. 72. Plans, peculiarities of Mesopotamian, i. 328. Plato, ii. 397. Plautus, ii. 364. Plinth, painted black at Khorsabad, i. 272, 291. Pliny, quoted by RAWLINSON, i. 4; calls the whole of Mesopotamia Assyria, 5, 71; quoted, ii. 364. Plutarch (pseudo), treatise on Isis and Osiris, i. 58. Polychromy, ii. 243; traces of colour still perceptible on the sculptures in the Louvre and the British Museum, 248; “natural polychromy,” 249. Polydemonism, i. 62. Polytheism, a development from the worship of stars and planets, i. 75. Pompeii, i. 139. Pongnon, ii. 61, 226. Population, elements of the P. in Mesopotamia, i. 13. Porches, i. 218. Porphyrius, i. 71. _Portes ornées_, Khorsabad, i. 217, 227. Pottery, ii. 298. Praxiteles, i. 58; ii. 286. Prisse d’Avennes quoted, i. 305. Proportions of early Assyrian figures, ii. 203. Prostitutions, religious, at Babylon, i. 89, 377. Ptah, i. 78, 79. Ptolemy, quoted by RAWLINSON, i. 4; his astronomical canon, i. 71. Pyrgoteles, ii. 263. R Racine, ii. 71. Raman, i. 75; ii. 89. Rassam, H., his discovery of a metal threshold at Borsippa, i. 241, 256; his explorations under Sir H. Rawlinson’s surveillance, ii. 7; excavations at Kouyundjik, 48, 118.