On the revival of the Assyrian empire, about B.C. 990, we come again to numerous references to the Genesis legends, and these continue through almost every reign down to the close of the empire. The Assyrians carved the sacred tree and cherubim on their walls, they depicted in the temples the struggle between Merodach and the dragon, they decorated their portals with the figure of Izdubar strangling a lion, and carved the struggles of Izdubar and Hea-bani with the lion and the bull even on their stone vases. Just as the sculptures of the Greek temples, the paintings on the vases and the carving on their gems were taken from their myths and legends, so the series of myths and legends belonging to the valley of the Euphrates furnished materials for the sculptor, the engraver, and the painter, among the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians. In this way we have continued evidence of the existence of these legends down to the time of Assur-bani-pal, B.C. 673 to 626, who caused the present known copies to be made for his library at Nineveh. Search in Babylonia would, no doubt, yield much earlier copies of all these works, but that search has not yet been instituted, and for the present we have to be contented with our Assyrian copies. Looking, however, at the world-wide interest of the subjects, and at the important evidence which perfect copies of these works would undoubtedly give, there can be no doubt that further progress will be made in research and discovery, and that all that is here written will one day be superseded by newer texts and fuller and more perfect light. INDEX. Abel, 316. Abram, 317. Abydenus, 40. Accad or Akkad, 20. Adam, 83, 315. Adrakhasis, 288. Agané, 313. Age of documents, 21. Alaparus, 39. Alexander Polyhistor, 32, 43. Alexander the Great, 1. Alorus, 39, 40, 187. Amarda, 313. Amempsin, 40. Amillarus, 40. Ammenon, 41. Anatu, 49. Anementus, 41. Animals, creation of, 71. Antiquity of legends, 22. Anu, 48, 49, 108, 120. Anus, 44. Apason, 43. Apollodorus, 39. Ararat, 307. Ardates, 36, 311. Arioch, 172. Ark, 42, 280, 281, 309, 319. Armenia, 42. Arnold, Mr. E., 6. Arrangement of tablets, 14, 15. Asherim, 244. Assorus, 44. Assur, 26, 313. Assur-bani-pal, 6, 27. Assur-nazir-pal, 36. Assyrian excavations, 6. Atarpi, story of, 155, 156. Aus, 44. Babel, 161, 163, 168. Babil mound, 171. Babylon, 39, 42, 313. Babylonia, 38. Babylonian cities, 293. legends, 3. seals, 178, 330. sources of literature, 16. Bel, 47, 53, 113. Belat, 53. Belus, 36, 44. Berosus, 1, 32. Birs Nimrud, 167. Borsippa, 313. Bull, destruction of, 231. Cainan, 316. Calah, 313. Calneh, 75, 313. Cara-indas, 18. Casdim, 318. Cedars, 216. Chaldean account of deluge, 6. astrology, 20. dynasties, 195. Change in Assyrian language, 17. Chaos, 60. Chedor-laomer, 172.