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 Index. 409 Boscawen, ii. 232, 345. Botta quoted, i. 157, 175; his opinion as to the use of columns, 179, 244, 259 ; glazed bricks, 294 ; his opinion as to Assyrian use of colour, ii. 245- Brandis, ii. 397. Bréal, Michel, quoted, i. 32. Brewster, Sir D., ii. 306, 308. Bricks, process of manufacture of, i. 115 ; system of construction in, 116 ; made in Chaldaea at a very early period, 117 ; their shape, 117 ; their size, 117; their inscriptions, 118; con- vex-sided B. at Abou-Sharein, 118; dangers of crude B. as a building material, 156; always clothed in some other material in the palaces, 271 ; quantity of enamelled B. to be found in Babylonia, 281 ; enamel- led B. of Assyria inferior to those of Chaldaea, 281 ; glazed B. in the British Museum, 281 ; enamelled B. found by George Smith at Nimroud, 293- Bridge, at Babylon, ii. 57. Bronze, its use in the palaces of the king of Babylon, according to Philostratus, i. 299. Broussa, i. 289. Balls, winged, ii. 81. Battons, or walking-sticks, ii. 357. Bracelets, ii. 356. Bumados, ii. 225. Buvarha, i. 156, 371. Byblos, i. 56. Cabul, ii. 374. Caillou Michaux, the, i. 30; ii. 4, 197-8. Cairo compared to Babylon, ii. 59. Calah, i. 14, 42 ; to be identified with Nimroud, 314. Callisthenes, i. 71. Calneh, i. 14. Campania, engraved bowls found there, ii- 339- Candolie, A. de, ii. 399. Canephoros found near Bagdad, ii. 116. Capitals, i. 205. Cappadocia, annexed by Assyria, i. 7 ; ii. 236. Carpets, probable identity of the pat- terns on modern Kurdish carpets with those made in antiquity, i. 289 ; 293- 11. OL. II. Cartoons, used by the designers of the glazed brick decorations, i. 285. Caucasus, metals brought from the, i. 125. Causeways, paved, ii. 74. Cavaniol, H., quoted, i. 151. Cedars from Lebanon, used by Assyria, i. 123. Cemeteries, drainage of the C. in Lower Chaldaea, i. 341 ; their contents, 34 2 -. Ceramics, etymology of the word, i. 115-. Chabouillet, his Catalogue des Camées quoted, ii. 90. Chafing-dishes, ii. 323. Chaldaea, primitive civilisation, i. 1 ; its size, 7 ; ethnic elements of primitive C, 16; its early population, 17-21; second C. empire, 5 2 ; sudden storms, 74 ; archaic period of its art, ii. 187 ; its classic age, 192. Chaldaean religion, i. 55 ; more obscure than that of Egypt, 55 ; its deriva- tion from fetishism, 59 ; origin of the composite forms of gods, 60 ; as- tronomy compared with that of Egypt, 72 ; origin of its idols, 76 ; difficulty of establishing a Meso- potamian pantheon, 78 ; the com- posite figures of Egypt and Mesopo- tamia compared, 79 ; anthropomor- phism of the Chaldaeans franker then than that of the Egyptians, 80 ; premiership of successive gods, 84. Chaldaeans (the priestly sect), described by Diodorus, i. 90 ; their archimagus, Chalybes, ii. 312. Chamanism, i. 59. Chariots, war-, ii. 74 ; their construction, 75- Chariot-poles, ii. 344. Chastity, sacrifice of, at Babylon, i. 89. Châtra (or shatra), ii. 174. Chedorlaomer, i. 36. Chedornakhounta, i. 36. China, its civilisation compared with those of Egypt and Chaldaea, ii. 378-380. Chipiez quoted, i. 220. Chronology, Chaldean and Assyrian i. 36-41. Choisy, Aug., quoted, i. 172. Chosroes, i. 171, 185. Cicero quoted, i. 66, 71. Cimmerians, i. 44. 3 g