Sammuramat, her Assyrian title, 29; wife of Samsi-Rammon, 29; mythical connexion with Ishtar, 29; worshipped by the Syrians, 27; esteemed as the daughter of Dercatus, 27; district round Lake Van called after, Shamiramagerd, 28 SEMITES. Germs of culture received from Akkadians by Babylonian, 13; their love of wisdom, 14, 15; Babylon entered by, 15, 16; believed to have come from Arabia, 15, 16; made by the code of Khammurabi, 21; ancient, and gods, 89; serpent loathed by, 289; animistic influences; appeal of, to, 318 SEMITIC. Empire, first great, founded in Babylonia by Sargon of Akkad, 16; religious thought, 235; worship and, lamentations, 253; polytheism, 313; conservatism, 316; cults; Babylonian influence upon, 324; religion, 329, 331; peoples; a 'peculiar people,' 332; faith, includes various manifestations, 332 SEN-NACH'E-RIB. Son of usurping general Sargon, 30; campaign of, against Hezekiah, 30; Nineveh built by, 30; Esar-haddon son of, 31; takes nucleus of Assur-bani-pal's library from Calah, 154; soothsayers and his death, 260; Layard's discoveries in palace of, 345 SERPENT. The ancients and the, 289; equivalent, Aibu ('the enemy'), 289 SET. Osiris and, reference to, 133 SET-A'PO. A wealthy Babylonian who harbours Sinonis, 59 'SEVEN SPHERES, THE STAGES OF.' A building, the wonder of Borsippa, 104 SEVEN TABLETS. Of creation; primary object of, 71 SHAD'RACH. One of Daniel's companions, 38 SHAL-MA-NE'SER I. King of Assyria, 22, 308; Tukulti-in-Aristi, son of, 22; Nusku and, 224; inscription of, unearthed by George Smith, 351 SHAL-MA-NE'SER II. King of Assyria in succession to Assur-nazir-pal III, 24; Overthrows Ahab, King of Israel, 24; Samsi-Rammon son of, 24; the god Dáda and, 189; Merodach (Bel) and, 225, 227; discovery of obelisk of, 343; dedications of, unearthed, 351 SHAL-MA-NE'SER IV. Successor of Tiglath-pileser III, 30 SHAM'ASH. 1. Temple of, at Sippar, restored by Nabonidus, 41; adored at Sippar, 94; the sun-god, 109-111; son of Sin, 109; Aa, consort of, 110; Ishtar and, 130; Gilgamesh and, 156, 165; Khammurabi and, 187; Zu captured by, 195; Merodach and, 200; cult of, in Assyria, 222, 223; seventh month sacred to, 236; a Canaanitish god, 325; Nabonidus and, 377. 2. The great idol of, 249 SHAR'RU-ILU. One of the lesser Babylonian gods, 229 SHATT-EN-NÎL. Excavations along bank of, by Haynes, 365 SHE'BA, QUEEN OF. Tiglath-pileser II quarrels with, 301 SHEPHERD. The sun the, of the stars, 236; En-lil, of the dark-headed people, 254 SHEPHERD KING, THE. Daon, of Pantibiblon, 112 SHI'NAR, PLAIN OF. Babylon built on, 52 SHUL-GUR. Variant of Nin-Girsu, 144 SHU-RIPP'AK. 1. Son of Ubara-Tutu, 173. 2. City of, 177, 178 SHU'TU. Variant of South Wind, 117 SI'BI. The god, 108 SICILY. Worship of Ashtart (Ishtar) at, 327 SID'DA. The temple, 306 SI'DON. Tyre and, in touch with Assyria, 327; Ashtart or Ishtar, temple of, in, 327;