Aleppo, saddlers of, 1-3; politics and religion, 3-8; municipal income, 8-9; works of Seif ed Dauleh, 9, 11-12; Christians of, 9-10; antiquity of, 10-11; the Jâmi’ el Ḥelâwîyeh, 11; mosque of Firdaus, 12; the Jâmi’ esh Shaibîyeh, 12; shrine of Ḥussein, 12-13; architecture, 13-14; the Bîmâristân El Malik eẓ Ẓâhir, 14; the citadel, 15-16; the road to Baghdâd, 126; gateway of the citadel, the serpent motive, 15, 190; news of massacre, 317; distances from, 334, 335 Alexandretta, port of, 334, 335 ’Alî Dâgh, 353 ’Alḳâmî, the, 164 _note_^{1} Alḳôsh, 274, 281, 282 Allan, 111, 112 Alûs, 101 Al’ Uzz (Kiepert), 101 Amadîyeh, 288 Amârah, 184, 194 ’Amej, castle of, 86, 121 ’Amr, mosque of, Cairo, 56 _note_^{2} ’Amrḳan, 262 ’Anâb, 44, 47 ’Ânah, 85, 87, 88, 89, 113; the road to, 92-93; the castle and minaret, 94-96; history, 96-98 Anatho (’Anah), 92, 109, 111, 114 Andaval, village of, 356 Anderîn, barracks at, 121 _note_^{2} Annouca, castle of, 68 Anthemusia, 22 Anti Taurus, 327 Antioch Gate, Aleppo, 11, 15 Antioch on the Orontes, 10 Anu and Adad, temple of, 223 Apamea (Strabo), 204 Arabissus, 339 _note_^{1} Ararat, mountain of, 289 Araxes, the (the Khâbûr), 73 Arba’, village of, 303 _note_^{1} Arba’în, shrine of the, Tekrît, 217 Arbela, 221, 228 Arca, _see_ Arga Arga, 338, 339 _note_^{1-40} Argæus, Mount, 344, 345, 353-54, 355 Argæus the Lesser, 356 Arghana, the monastery of the Virgin, 328 _and note_^{1} Arghana Ma’den, Khân of, 328 _note_^{1}, 329, 330 _note_^{1} Ariarathia, 344 _note_^{1} Arîmeh, village of, 20 Ark of Noah, 291-95 Arnâs, 317-18 Arslân Tepeh, mound of, 336, 337 Artemis, Temple of (Darius), 111 ’Ashiḳ, the, Sâmarrâ, 235 _and note_^{4-39}, 242 Asia Minor, tower tombs, 37 Asikha, 111, 112 ’Asîleh, 130, 132 Asshur, mound of, 221, 222; temple of, 222-24, 229 Assyrian temples, construction, 223 Atargatis, pool of, 21-22 ’Atâ’ut, pitch well at, 106 Atesh Gah of Jur, 246 _note_^{2} Awânâ, _see_ Wâneh Aywân Kisrâ, the, 181 _note_^{3} Azakh, 302-3 Azbuzu, 336 ’Azîzîyeh, 339 _note_^{1}, 344 _and note_^{1}, 345 _note_^{2} Bâ’adrî, village of, 269-70, 273; ’Alî Beg, 273-74; Sa’îd Beg, 274, 280; the summer festival, 280; underground village near, 299 _note_^{1} Bâ’ashikâ, 265 Bâ Dibbeh, 309 Bâ Sebrîna, village of, 303 _and note_^{1-4}; monasteries of, 304-5; construction in, 315 Bâb, 17, 18 _and note_^{3} Bâb el Ḥadîd, Aleppo, 15 Bâb el Maḳâm, Aleppo, 14 Bâb el Wuṣṭânî, 191 Bâb eṭ Ṭilism, Baghdâd, 190 Bâb Kinnesrîn, the, Aleppo, 11 Bâbil, mound of, 168, 173 Babylon, 22, 164; Palace of Nebuchadnezzar, work of excavation, 168-71; temple of Ishtar and the Ishtar Gate, 171; the Via Sacra, 171-72; temple of Marduk, 172; the theatre, 172-73; mound of Bâbil, 173; construction in, 223