Nebuchadrezzar leads Jews into captivity in, 37; Kings; Nabonidus, last of, 40; independence of, recovered after death of Darius, 41; Persians conquer, 41; destruction of, 41; Seleucia built out of ruins of, 42; archæology, 46, 47; legend of confusion of tongues and towers of, 47; E-Sagila, tower of, 47; built by Nimrod, 50; cuneiform writing of, 60-66; cosmogony, 70-87; religion, early, 88-153; spirits and gods in ancient, 89-153; religion, Semitic influence on, 91, 92; religion, signs of totemism in, 92; the Pantheon--Early, 94, 95; Later, 184-198; Nippur preferred to, 196; the country of Bel, 225; star-worship in, 231-238; temples of, 242-251; magic and demonology, 257-288; belief in taboo, 278; conquered by Shalmaneser I, 308; religions of Assyria and, comparative value, 313-336, etc.; captivity, 321; religion, penetrated to Britain, 331; the religion of Zoroaster supplanted that of ancient, 332; ethics, 337, 338; myth, compared with Hellenic and Scandinavian, 338; moral code, 338; modern excavations in, 339-366; the, of Nebuchadrezzar II, 367; water supply of, 368; hanging gardens of, 371; the elder, 375, 376; national status of, regained, 377; religion, decay of, 378, 379 _Bab-y-lon'ic-a_. A work by Iamblichus, containing fragments of Babylonian history, 56; reference to an epitome of the, by Photius, 56 BANKS. Temples as, 250, 251 BAPHOMET. Name of pagan idol, 293 BARBARO, JOSAPHAT. Cuneiform writing and, 61 BAR-SA'NES. King of Armenia, 25 _Barû_. The seers, 260 BAS'RA. Layard sends sculptures to, 344; Ernest de Sarzec, French vice-consul at, 355 BAS-RELIEF-S. Found in palace of Sennacherib at Kouyunjik, 345; found in palace of Assur-bani-pal, 346 BAU. Goddess; mother of mankind, 'chief daughter of Anu,' 144, 145; _Zag-muku_ and, 251 BE-DAD or BEN-DAD. The father of the Edomite Hadad, 190 BE-EL'ZE-BUB. Magic and, 258 BE-HIS-TÛN. Persian text at, 65 BEL. Babylonian sun-god, 41; the Dragon and 71; Merodach and, 79, 194; at Nippur, looked on as creator of man, 86; ruled at Nippur (Niffur), 94; earlier variant, En-lil; description of, 95-97; legend of the Dragon and, in the Apocrypha, 97; worship of, at Babylon, 98; King Cyrus and worship of, 98-101; the temple of, 101-105; discovery of Mr George Smith re temple of, 101; Nebo, son of, 102; father of Nirig, 153; Ut-Napishtim and, 174, 176; Gilgamesh resorts to, 180; Tablets of Destiny and, 193-195; Dagan and, 198, 216; the Assyrians and the country of, 225; Merodach usurped place of, 227; the Pole Star (of equator), 236; eclipses and, 255; Bilé allied with, 317; shrine to, of King Bur-Sin I, 364 _Bel, The Observations of_. In library founded by Sargon, 18; translated into Greek by Berossus, 18 BEL'IT. A generic term given to Ishtar, 214, 227; Anu's consort, 227; figures as wife of Asshur, 227; Tiglath-pileser I and, 227; Assur-bani-pal and, 227