images buried under threshold in, 14; crossing threshold in marriage in ancient, 39; influence of, shown in architecture of doorways, 60; uplifted hand in representing deities of, 79; inscriptions at doorway in, 108 f.; guardians of threshold in, 111; Zephaniah’s curse on, 115; reverence for phallic emblems in, 230. Assyrian: word _nish_–lifting up hand, 83; city gates named after special god, 95; god Nergal beneath threshold, 95; gods Ea and Merodach at gate of house, 95; monuments on doorway shrine, 105; king, sculptured image of, with arms uplifted, 115; kings and boundary lines, 177; kings offering sacrifices at boundaries of empire, 184; temples, furniture of, 207; sculpture, testimony of, 231, 257. Assyro-Babylonians and boundary lines, 185. Athaliah, priests assigned to service at threshold in days of, 120. Athenian generals offering sacrifices to Mercury, 172. Atlas upholding heaven, 132. Attica and Peloponnesus, boundary between, 180. Aubrey, John: cited, 74. Avaika, or under world, 152. Avatea, part man and part fish, 152. Azila, reference to, 62. Aztecs, marriage ceremonies among, 246. Baal, symbol of, 214. “Bab,” or Door, spiritual head of Babists, 103. Babel, tower of, or door of God, 103. Babelon, Ernest, reference to, 60. Bâb-ilu, Bâbi-ilu, Bab-el, Door of God, 103. Babist sect in Persia, 103 f. Babylon: Daniel as judge in, 64; reference to, 75; king of, recognized by uplifted hand, 80; building of walls of, 109 f.; gates dedicated to gods in, 110; temples with altars outside in, 111 f.; kings of, 154; final overthrow of, 211; reverence for phallic emblems in, 230; ancient, in religious symbolism, 234. Babylonia: inscriptions placed at threshold in, 22; influence shown in architecture of doorways, 60; red hand on houses and animals in, 75; uplifted hand in representing deities of, 79; swinging doors in religious symbolism of, 105; sanctity of doorway in, 108 f.; guardians of threshold in, 111; crossing threshold in death in literature and legends of, 112 f.; sacredness of doorway above threshold in, 126 f.; temple building in, 153; boundaries in, 177; indications of presence of deity in, 201; ancient, religions of, and serpent as symbol, 235. Babylonian: tablet of Nebuchadrezzar on gate as place of justice, 60; character for house, palace, and temple identical, 99 f.; monuments on doorway shrine, 105; literature, reference to, 109; Hades surrounded by seven walls with seven gates, 113; idea of future life, 128; king, reference to last, 153; sun-god Shamash, 201; temples, furniture of, 207. Babylonian and Oriental Record, reference to, 231. Babylonian Talmud, reference to, 253. Babylonians, twofold symbols among, 200. Bagdad, khaleefs of, threshold custom of, 10.