Sharrukin I. of Agade (Sargon I.), 205; legend about his birth, 206; his glorious reign, 206; Sharrukin II. of Agade (Sargon II.), 205; his religious reform and literary labors, 207, 208; probable founder of the library at Erech, 209; date of, lately discovered, 213. Shem, eldest son of Noah, 130; meaning of the name, 198. Shinar, or Shinear, geographical position of, 127. Shumir, Southern or Lower Chaldea, 145. Shumir and Accad, oldest name for Chaldea, 143, 144. Shumiro-Accadian, oldest language of Chaldea, 108; Agglutinative, 145. Shumiro-Accads, oldest population of Chaldea, of Turanian race, 144; their language agglutinative, 145; introduce into Chaldea cuneiform writing, metallurgy and irrigation, ib.; their probable migration, 146; their theory of the world, 153. Shushan (Susa), capital of Elam, destroyed by Asshurbanipal, 194. Siddim, battle in the veil of, 221, 222. Sidon, a Phoenician city, meaning of the name, 133; the "first-born" son of Canaan, eponymous ancestor of the city in Genesis X., ib. Siduri, one of the maidens in the magic grove, 311. Sin, the Moon-god, first god of the Second Babylonian Triad, 240; one of the "twelve great gods," 246; attacked by the seven rebellious spirits, 291. Sin-Muballit, see Amarpal. Sippar, sister city of Agade, 205; Temple of Shamash at, excavated by H. Rassam, 247, 248. Sir-burla (also Sir-gulla, or Sir-tella, or Zirbab), ancient city of Chaldea, now Mound of Tell-Loh; discoveries at, by Sarzec, 88-90. Sir-gulla, see Sir-burla. Smith, George, English explorer; his work at the British Museum, 102; his expeditions to Nineveh, 103; his success, and his death, 104; his discovery of the Deluge Tablets, 301. Sorcerers believed in, 157. Spirits, belief in good and evil, the first beginning of religion, 150; elementary, in the primitive Shumiro-Accadian religion, 153-155; evil, 155-157; allowed an inferior place in the later reformed religion, 236, 250; rebellion of the seven evil, their attack against the Moon-god, 290, 291. Statues found at Tell-Loh, 88, 214. Style, ancient writing instrument, 94, 109. Synchronism, meaning of the word, 212. T. Tablets, in baked or unbaked clay, used as books, 109; their shapes and sizes, 109; mode of writing on, 109-110; baking of, 110; great numbers of, deposited in the British Museum, 110-112; Chaldean tablets in clay cases, 112; tablets found under the foundation stone at Khorsabad, 113, 114; "Shamash tablet," 248. Talismans, worn on the person or placed in buildings, 164. Tammuz, see Dumuzi. Taurus Mountains, 190. Tell-Loh (also Tello), see Sir-burla.