Sculpture, absence of women from the reliefs, i. 111; practically confined to war and hunting, 111; its principal themes, ii. 78; its fondness for fantastic animals, 79; treatment of the nude, 92; the absence of nude figures from the reliefs, 98; documentary character of Assyrian sculpture, 101; epic or newspaper? 103; want of variety in the composition of the reliefs, 104; its appearance of improvisation, 105; materials used, 109; use of clay, 113; terra-cotta statuettes, 114; its principal conventions, 125; statue of Nebo, 126; of Assurnazirpal, 126; the principles of the bas-reliefs, 128; peculiarities of Assyrian statues and figures in relief, 130; the Assyrian type, 135; are the Assyrian statues Iconic? 138; representations of animals, 142; proportions of early Assyrian figures, 203; its power of selection, 207; in the reign of Sargon, 219; picturesque details introduced in the time of Sennacherib, 223; Egyptian and Assyrian contrasted, 281; _do._ 385. Scythians, their invasion of Western Asia, i. 49. Seal, in universal use in Babylonia, ii. 251. Seistan, i. 2. Sekhet, i. 78. Seleucia, i. 54, 93, 223. Seleucidæ, i. 5, 157. Seleucus Nicator, i. 54. Seljukian period, carved lions from, i. 262. Semi-domes, i. 173. Semiramis, i. 33; represented on the walls of Babylon according to Ctesias, 283, 361; her palaces, ii. 34, 217. Semnat, ii. 394. Senkereh (or Larsam), i. 38. Sennacherib, i. 43; his death, 103, 105; state of sculpture during his reign, ii. 223; his appearance in the Bavian sculptures, ii. 229. Seraglio, at Khorsabad, ii. 16. Serdabs, i. 139, 383. Sesostris, i. 33. Seti, ii. 395. Sewers, system of, in palaces, i. 227. Sexagesimal system, the, of the Babylonians, ii. 398. _Shah-Nameh_, the, i. 20. Shalmaneser II., i. 43, 105; the gates made for him, 242; ii. 40; his obelisk, ii. 110. Sharezer, i. 103. Shat-el-Arab, i. 7. Shat-el-Hai, ii. 174. Shem, i. 15. Shield, votive, from Lake Van, ii. 347. Shinar, i. 14, 18. Sidon, i. 16. Silius Italicus, ii. 364. Sills, i. 239. Silver, i. 299. Simplicius, his statement as to Babylonian astronomy, i. 71. Sin, Assyrian god, i. 201. Sinjar, i. 178; ii. 110. Sippara, i. 38, 53, 200; ii. 90. Sirtella, _see_ Tello. Sittacenia, i. 177.