Nannar confounded with, 146 ARTEMIS. Reference to, 132 ART-S. Babylonian; gem-cutting, etc., 17; Babylonian literature and, under Khammurabi the Great, 20; all the, under Ea's patronage, 192 A-RU'-RU. Goddess who aided the formation of man, 82, 86, 123; creates a champion against Gilgamesh, 162 AR'Y-AN. Race; the Philistines of, 324 AS-A'RI. Appellation of Merodach, 202; may be compared with Asar (Osiris), 202 ASH'DOD. Temple of Dagon at, 151; Sargon's expedition against, 210, 211, 350 ASH'TART or ISH'TAR. Worshipped in Carthage, 327, 330 ASH'TER-OTH or AS-TAR'TE. Ishtar known to Canaanites, Phœnicians, and Greeks as, 124, 319, 326; the Aphrodite of the Greeks, 131; Phœnician god, 328 ASHURBAN'APAL. _See_ Assur-bani-pal. A-SHU'SHU-NA'MIR. Created by Ea, 130 ASIA. Submitted to Ninus, 25; Tiglath-pileser III invested with sovereignty of, 30; Belit and Asshur in pantheon of, 228 ASIA MINOR. Greek colonies in, 235, 236; peopled by diverse races, 324; worship of Ashtart in, 328 _A'si-pû_. The wizards, 260; 273, 274 AS'KE-LON. Temple of Ashtart (Ishtar) at, 327 ASSH'UR. 1. City; site of, explored by the German expedition of 1899, 47; residence of god Asshur, 207; Bel's temple in, 227. 2. God; identified with Merodach, 94; Ishtar, consort of, 125; religion of Assyria centres in, 206-211; etymology of name, 208; variant, Anshar, 208; mentioned in inscription of Samsi-Ramman, 208; Sargon and the conquering power of, 210, 211; Ishtar and, 214; Bel-Merodach placed after, in the Assyrian Pantheon, 225, 377; prisoner-gods and, 226; Belit and, 227 ASSUR-BAN'I-PAL. King of Assyria; Greek equivalent, Sardanapalus, 32; historic reality, 33; death of, 33; succeeded Esar-haddon, 34; Samus-sum-yukin, brother of, 34; his death, 35; his library at Nineveh, 35, 46, 71, 261, 282, 346; patron of literature, 154; Sin and, 224; Belit and, 227, 228; capture of twenty gods of the Elamites by, 204; tablets dealing with magic in library of, 261; the five hounds of, 290, 291; autobiography of, 301-306; palace of, discovered by Rawlinson, 346; fragment of history of, discovered by George Smith, 352; tablets of, 354; zikkurat of, 365 ASS'UR-DAN III. The fatal eclipse and, 307-309 ASSUR-NAZ'IR-PAL. Son of Tuk-ul-ti-in-Aristi, 23; places Hadad-nadin-akhi on throne of Babylon, 23; Ishtar and, 214; Ninib, and, 214, 216; Calah residence of, 215; Shamash and, 223; Sin and, 223; sculptures glorifying, 343; dedications of, unearthed, 351 ASSUR-NAZ'IR-PAL III. King of Assyria, reference to his reign, 23 ASS'UR-RI-SHI'-SHI'. Ninib and, 214 ASS'UR-YU-BALL'IDH. The Kassite king of Babylonia marries daughter of, 22 ASSYRIA-NS. Race origin, 12; Hittite and Amorite elements intermingled with, 12, 13; land boundaries, the Tigris and Euphrates, 12; the Akkadians and, 13; Tiglath-pileser, King of, 23; Semiramis the Great, Queen of, 24-29;