Smith, George, quoted, i. 36; his recognition of the true characters of the Cypriot alphabet, 44; translator of texts from Assurbanipal’s library, 48, 71; his discovery of limestone bases in the palace of Assurbanipal, 220, 237, 276; enamelled brick found by him at Nimroud, 293; his discovery of an account of Istar’s descent into limbo, 344; his explorations, ii. 7; _résumé_ of the monumental history of Calah (Nimroud), 37; his description of the site of Arbela, 48; his discovery of a small model bull at Nimroud, 115. Sockets, granite, &c., for the door-pivots, i. 242; from Balawat, 243. Sodom, i. 199. Soldi, E., ii. 253; his description of the process of gem engraving quoted, 259. Somalis, ii. 373. Sorcery, Chaldæan belief in, i. 65. Soury, ii. 397. Spoons, metal, ii. 351. Staged-towers, difficulty of restoring them accurately, i. 364; their monotonous appearance, 366; their resemblance to a stepped pyramid, 366; description of temple of Bel by Herodotus, 366; their various types restored, 370–382; their ruins discussed, 382–391. Staircases, i. 189–192. Steatite, ii. 190. Steles, their characteristic forms, i. 236; fluted S. with palmette, 258; rock-cut S. at Kouyundjik, 259. Stone, no dressed S. to be found at Babylon, i. 120; bridge at B. said to have been built of stone, 120. Strabo, quoted by RAWLINSON, i. 4; carries western frontier of Assyria up to Syria, 5, 54; height of temple of Bel, 130; ruined state of the temple in his time, 137; his statement as to the prevalence of vaults in Babylon, 169, 176; ii. 251. Stylus, for cutting the wedges, i. 28. Styx, i. 354. Sully-Prudhomme, his lines to the Venus of Milo quoted, ii. 249. Sumer, i. 21, 59. Sumerian system, the, i. 29. Surface decoration in Chaldæa, i. 245. Susa, date of its capture by Assurbanipal, i. 36, 52; its palace intrigues, 96. Susiana, i. 17. Sybel, L. von, ii. 285. Syene, i. 94. Syllabaries, Assyrian, i. 23. Syncellus, Georgius, i. 51. Syria, ii. 172. Syriac, the dominant language in the early centuries of our era, i. 18. T Tablets of gold, silver, antimony, copper, and lead, found at Khorsabad, i. 319. Tacitus, i. 5. Tadmor, _see_ Palmyra. _Takht-i-Khosro_, i. 170, 185. Tammouz, i. 344. Tardieu, Amédée, i. 177. _Tartan_, or Grand Vizer, i. 96. Tauthé, i. 83. Taylor, J. E., quoted, i. 39, 118, 155; his explorations of the mounds near the Persian Gulf, 158, 200, 222, 279, 281; his explorations at Abou-Sharein, 371; ii. 256. Teheran, i. 289. Tell-Amran (or, Tell-Amran-ibn-Ali), ii. 35.