Walls, construction of, i. 147; height of W. at Khorsabad, 151; ornamentation of W. at Khorsabad, 151; of Babylon, as described by Diodorus after Ctesias, 282; of Dour-Saryoukin, their good preservation, 282; height of the W. of Babylon, ii. 63. Warka (the ancient Erech), i. 24, 38, 245, 272; palace at, ii. 33, 256, 306, 308. Wedges, the, i. 21; compared with the hieroglyphs and Chinese characters, 21; original constitution of, 23; originally perhaps cut on bark of trees, 27; terra-cotta peculiarly well adapted for them, 28; their ideographic origin, 29. Weights, Mesopotamian, ii. 220. Wheat, the origin of its cultivation, ii. 399. Windows, i. 236. Winged bulls, their height, i. 268; small model bull from Nimroud, ii. 113. Wuswas, i. 245, 272, 371; ii. 33. X Xenephon, i. 112, 151; his _Anabasis_ quoted, ii. 59. Xerxes, ii. 201. Xisouthros, the Chaldæan Noah, i. 36, 315. Y Yang-tse-kiang, ii. 375. Yezidis, their houses, i. 178; their religious beliefs, _ib._; ii. 71. Z Zab, the great, i. 6; ii. 225. Zagros, i. 6, 39. _Zalalu_, i. 345. Zarpanitu, _see_ Istar. Zebu, ii. 373. Zend, the study of, a preparation for deciphering the wedges, ii. 4. Zephaniah, quoted, i. 302. Zeus, i. 369, 374. _Zigguratt_, _see_ Staged towers. Zodiac, signs of, origin of, i. 70. THE END. LONDON: R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS. FOOTNOTES: [1] RAWLINSON _The Five Great Monarchies_, &c., (4th edition), vol. i. p. 278. [2] MILLIN, _Monuments inedits_, vol. i. plates 8 and 9. [3] _Rheinisches Museum_, 1829, p. 41. This passage will be found in a note appended by the illustrious historian to a paper by OTTFRIED MÜLLER, entitled _Sandon und Sardanapal_. [4] Traces of the excitement caused by these discoveries may be found in an article written by M. de Longperier in 1845, in which, before having seen the monuments, he points out the interest and importance of the discoveries with rare sagacity. The paper in question is entitled _Ninive et Khorsabad_. It has lately been reprinted in the first volume (page 34) of his collected works (A. DE LONGPERIER, _Œuvres_, 5 vols. 8vo. Leroux). This first volume bears for sub-title: _Archéologie orientale: Monuments arabes_. [5] _Lettre à M. Isidore de Lowenstern sur les Inscriptions cunéiformes de l’Assyrie_ (_Œuvres_, vol. i. p. 109). M. de Lowenstern had already by a kind of happy intuition hit upon the name, but without being able to give a reason for his transliteration.