BEL-KU'DUR-U'ZUR. The last of the old Assyrian line, killed by Hadad-nadin-akhi, 23 BEL-MER'O-DACH. Babylonian god; avenged by Cyrus, 41; son of Ea and Dawkina, 73; absorbed into the Assyrian pantheon, 225 BE'LOS. _See_ variant, Bel-Merodach, 73 BEL-TE-SHAZZ'AR. Babylonian appellation for Daniel, 37 BEL'TIS. Variant, Nin-lil; the wife of En-lil, 101; sanctuary of, at Girsu, 101; name signified 'lady,' 101; tablets and figures of, found by Dr Peters, 364 BEL'US. Temple of; mound of Bâbil identified with, 103; delineations of animals preserved in temple of, 114; variant, Dis, 114 BEL-ZAK'IR-ISK'UN. Descendant of Assur-bani-pal, 306, 307 BE-NA'NI. God; husband of Melili, 82 BE-NI'NI. King of the monsters, 295, 296 BER-OSS'US. 1. Babylonian historian; translates _The Observations of Bel_ into Greek, 18; narrative of, _re_ creation of man, 81; his statement _re_ Ea copied by Alexander Polyhistor, etc., 112, 113; quotes version of the deluge myth, 177, 178; the hanging gardens of Babylon and, 371. 2. A priest of Bel at Babylon, 42; 'history' by, 42-45; extracts from history of, preserved by Josephus and Eusebius, 42; Sisuthrus and, 42; his legend of Oannes, 42; his account of the deluge, 42-44; Daonus and, 127 BILÉ. A Celtic deity, 317 BINT-EL-AMIR. Hill of, 358, 361, 362, 365 BIRD MESSENGERS. Ut-Napishtim sends out, 176 BIRS NIMRÛD. Ruins of, 103 _Bit-ili_, THE. Sacred stones, 19 BIT-IL-YA'SU. King of Babylon, slain by Tukulti-in-Aristi, 22 BOMBAY. The Parsis of, 336 BOR-SIP'PA. Site of Nebo's temple at, 103; 'The Stages of the Seven Spheres,' the wonder of, 104; chief seat of Nebo's worship, 184 BOTTA, M. Archæological researches at Nineveh, 46; French Consul at Mosul; his excavations in Mesopotamia, 339, 340 BRITISH MUSEUM. Bricks in, containing Assur-bani-pal's researches, 35, 71, 154, 155, 290; obelisk of Shalmaneser II in, 343 BULL. Sacred, slain by Gilgamesh and Eabani, 158; Ramman's name the great, 220; forms of Ea and Merodach, 290 BULL, WINGED. Symbol of and En-lil, 97; associated with Merodach, 289, 290 BURMESE. Attitude of, to the dead, 269 BUR'NA-BUR'YAS. King of Babylonia, 22 BURNOUF. Cuneiform writing and, 63 BUR-SIN. Repairs Urbau's zikkurat, 248; shrine to Bel dedicated by, 364 BYB'LUS. Journey of Isis to, 328; Philo of, 328 C