Monotheists who flourished in Chaldæa in pre-Semitic times, resolved the various deities into manifestations of one supreme god, Anu; old hymns refer to 'the one god,' 58-9. Myths common to all old forms of faith, 77-8. N. Nabopolassar renounced his allegiance to Nineveh, and prepared the way for his son Nebuchadnezzar's empire, 53. Names of Assyrian kings explained, 54. Nebo the god of oratory and literature, said to have invented the cuneiform system of writing; great temple at Borsippa dedicated to him; his worship carried to Canaan, as seen in the names of a city and a mountain; had a temple at Bahrein under the name of Enzak; as a planetary deity he represented Mercury, and was often adored as Nusku, perhaps, the Nisroch of the Bible, 61. Nergal, the god of hunting and war, also presided with Anu over the regions of the dead, 65. Nineveh, probably coeval with the city of Assur, but only became the capital at a much later period; after the fall of the Assyrian Empire its site was forgotten for ages; Rich's conjecture verified by Layard's excavations, and its buried treasures again brought to light, 25-6. O. 'Observations of Bel,' the great work on astronomy and astrology, compiled at Accad for Sargon, mostly a record of eclipses of the sun and moon, conjunctions and phases of Venus and Mars; the time of the new year; the zodiacal signs named, and the divisions of the year, 102, 115-6. Observatories in all the great cities; specimens of the astronomers' fortnightly reports, 117-8. Official lists and titles almost endless; rank and office of the principal, 144. Omens, work on, in 137 books compiled for Sargon, known to the last days of the Empire, 102. Ox-driver's labour song in the fields, 109. P. Paradises or parks planted by the kings; gardens and shrubberies containing summer-houses by the wealthy; hanging garden, 130-1. Penitential psalms composed at a very remote period, one of the finest addressed to Istar, 71-3. Phœnician galley builders and sailors employed by Sennacherib on the Persian Gulf in his attack on the last refuge of the Chaldæans, 132. Planisphere from Nineveh, and a table of lunar longitudes, 116-7. Polygamy practised by the king, and the palace guarded by eunuchs, 129. Prayer after a bad dream, 70. Prayer of an Assyrian court for the king, 76. Prayers to Bel and various deities on different occasions, 68-70. Private will of Sennacherib in favour of Esar-haddon, 134. Proud boast of the Babylonian monarch about exalting his throne above the stars, and sitting in the assembly of the gods, 77.