Babylon, climate, 74; compared with Nineveh, 5; comparison of, with modern cities, 5; Dragon of, 46; Dûr of, 134, 136, 142; excavations, 5; Hanging Gardens, 98, 100; main gate of, 46; mounds of, 15; prehistoric existence, 88; private houses, planning of, 286; sacking of, 180; towers, 1, 2, 4, 5, 15, 34, 195, 196, 309; wall of, 1–6, 31, 34, 137, 311; Vatican of, 190 Babylon and Esagila of equal importance, 141; united, 87 Babylonia, glyptic art of, 29 Babylonian ell, 1, 40 graves, 54 house, 293 mounds, 14 scenery, 19 Bachura, 195 Bagdad, 8, 75, 82, 108, 228 Bagistana, 166 Balls, limestone, 50 Barks, sacred, 257 Basalt, 159, 166, 259 Bas-reliefs, 29 Bastion, 89, 136, 137, 138, 176, 178 Bavian inscription, 222 Beads, 118–19, 256, 264, 265 Beakers, 248, 257 Beams, 94 Bedri Bey, 10 Bees, 164 Bel, 60, 193, 210, 264, 313; and the Dragon, 46 Belit, 264 Bell, earthenware, 256 Belnadinshum, Bel-nâdin-šum, 240, 311 Belshazzar’s banquet, 103 Beltis, 26, 69, 72 Berosus, 96, 98, 169 Bezold, 192, 212 Binder, 84 Bismaya, 220 Bitumen, 6, 12, 44, 51, 54, 61, 112 Boar’s tusk, 271 Boats, earthenware, 258 Boomerang, 221 Borsippa, temple of, 31, 56, 209, 296; tower of, 11, 14, 32; zikurrat of, 194 Bowls, 248, 259, 261 Breccia, 25 Brick robbers, 82, 102, 144, 158, 160, 183, 294, 309 Bricks, baked, 134; burnt, 3 _et passim_; blue enamelled, 34, 44; eight-lined, 86; enamelled, 26, 88, 105; flooring, 147; inscribed, 61, 84–86, 138, 141, 187, 202, 208; plastic clay, 28; signs on, 30; square, 3; stamps, 52, 61, 75, 78, 137; remains, 305 Bridge, 197; gateway, 216 Bronze, 44, 76, 113, 169, 210, 263, 265, 267 Buddensieg, 74 Bulls, 38, 41, 45, 46, 130, 265, 272 Bureau, 103 Burial, methods of, 271, 272 Burials, double-urn, 273; crouching, 275 Burnaburariaš, 264 Canal, 8, 9, 18, 19, 50, 51, 52, 167, 168, 180 Casket, 59 Cavalier towers, 4, 68, 200 Cedar wood, 6, 12, 44, 113, 169, 210 Ceilings, cedar, 159 Cella, 31, 57, 58, 59, 63, 204, 206, 210, 230, 231, 234, 296, 298 Celsius, 74 Ceramics, 248 Chamber of Fate, 26, 52 Chase, 130 Cheetah, 48 China, wall of, 5 Chinese dragon, 48 Citadel, 71, 84, 107, 110, 256, 257 Clay, 155, 208, 238, 309 Coffins, anthropoid, 276; brick, 146; clay, 155, 238; pottery, 275; terra-cotta, 102, 219; wooden, 216, 219 Coins, Arabic, 270; Graeco-Persian, 270 Conduit, 148, 167, 300 Construction, false principle of, 84 Copper, 6, 12, 44, 113, 232, 233 Cores, 72, 148, 183 Courts of Justice, 90 Crypts, 91, 100 Ctesias, 2, 4, 96, 129, 131, 195, 197, 201, 313 Cuneiform, 75, 77, 80, 95, 128, 245, 269 Cupids, 285, 286 Curtains, 146, 151 Curtius Rufus, 97, 98, 325, 326