ETHNOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES. Between the peoples of the northern and southern culture-groups, 203 EUPHRATES, 1. River, 177, 368, 369; 2. Bridge, 375 EUPH-RA'TES-TIG'RIS. Valley; civilization of, influenced Semitic field, 92 EU-SE'BI-US. Sanchuniathon, Philo, and, 329 EXCAVATION-S. Modern, in Babylonia and Assyria, 339-366; in Egypt, 339; map relating to, in Babylonia and Assyria, 341; at Nineveh by George Smith, 347-354; at Kouyunjik by Rassam, 354, 355; of de Sarzec at Tellô, 355, 356; Babylonian Exploration Fund instituted in America, 356-366; under control of the University of Pennsylvania, 360-366; recent, by German Oriental Society, 367-377 E-ZI'DA. 1. Temple of Nabu at, 250; discovered by Rawlinson 346; 2. Great tower of Nabu, 375 E-ZILA. 'The firm house'; Nebo's shrine in temple of E-Sagila, 185 F FABLE. A Babylonian, _re_ the eagle, 296-298 FATE-S. The great gods Annunaki decree, 173; the Chamber of, 185, 252, 253 FATHER-SKY. Of primitive mythologies, 196 FEAST-S. The Jewish, of Purim, 140; Babylonian, 251, 252 FESTIVAL-S. Of Adonis, 135; of the Sacæa or Zakmuk, 141; New Year; Nebo and, 185; Babylonian; _Zag-muku_, sacred to Bau, 251, 252; Scottish-Celtic, of Beltane, 317. FIELD. An expert Assyriologist, 358 FIRE-GOD. Gibil, the, 225 FIRE-WORSHIP. The central feature of Zoroastrian ritual, 335 FISHER, MR. Architect in American exploration campaign, 360 FLOOD. _See_ Deluge. FRA-VASH'I. Guardian spirit of the Persians, 336 FRAZER, SIR JAMES. On the Greek way of representing Ashurbanapal (_i.e._ Sardanapalus), 32; on the real and the mock Sardanapalus, 34; Tammuz, and his _Golden Bough_, 134; Ishtar and, 137; feast of Purim and, 140; on Vashti, 143 FRESNEL. French exploration expedition and, 347 G