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 4iû Index. Clermont-Ganneau quoted, i. 348; ii. 34-'- Cloaca Maxima, i. 233. Cloisonné shapes, ii. 202. Coffered ceilings, i. 294-304. Coffins, fromWarka and Niffer, ii. 306. Colour, the use of, in decoration, i. 2 7 2 ; the use of in the human figures in the reliefs, i. 277. Columns, their restricted use, i. 132; their rarity due to want of stone, 200 ; their occurrence in the Sippara tab- let, 202 ; sheathed in bronze, 205 ; bases, 214-217 ; figured upon gems, ivories, and bronzes, 220. Commerce, ii. 372. Composite forms of Assyro-Chaldaean gods, i. 63. Cones, coloured, used for wall-decora- tion in Chaldaea, i. 279; bronze, at Tello, 318; superseded cylinders as seals, ii. 276. Confucius, ii. 378. Corneto, i. 180. Corundum, ii. 260. Costume, Chaldaeo-Assyrian, ii. 94. Courban-Bairam, feast of, ii. 38. Courtyards, at Khorsabad, ii. 16, 29. Cow, the, in Assyrian sculpture, ii. 143. Creil, ii. 381. Crenellations, i. 248 ; Place's theory of their origin, 252 ; note by editor, 253 ; coloured ornament upon them, Crete, ii. 51. Crux Ansata, ii. 120. Crystals, used for decorating furniture, ii- 3 2 3 : Ctesias, i. 52 ; speaks of the XaXWoc, 90 ; his account of the walls of Babylon, 282 ; his statements as to 1 the size of Babylon, ii. 59 ; his state- ments as to the size of Nineveh, 59 ; on the bronze figures of the gods, 202 ; his description of the figures on the walls of Babylon, 296. Ctesiphon, i. 54; never seems to have been a seat of learning, 57, 93, 223. Cunaxa, i. 113. Cuneiform characters, i. 14. Cush, i. 14. Cutha, ii. 57. Cyaxares, i. 50. Cybele, ii. 398. Cylinder, commemorative, its discovery at the Birs-Nimroud by Sir H. Raw- linson, i. 317 ; the Phillips C, 317. Cylinders (seals), i. 56 ; their universal use in Babylonia, ii. 251 ; collections of, in our Museums, 251 ; method of mounting, 255; of carrying, 256; their supercession by cones, 276; rarity of metal cylinders, 280. Cypriots, their indebtedness to Baby- lonia for their written characters, i. Cyprus, engraved bowls found there, ii. 339. Cyrus, 1, 54. D Dado, coloured, at Khorsabad, i. 273. Dagon, see Oannes. Daily Telegraph, the, its subsidies to Mr. George Smith's exploration, ii. 7. Damascening, ii. 345. Damascius, i. 58, 83. Damascus, ii. 231. Darius, ii. 201, 275. Decoration, i. 260 ; the colours of the painted D., 272; motives of the coloured D., 274; colours used at Babylon, 283 ; cuneiform characters used decoratively, 284; use of animal forms- in D., 307. Deecke quoted, i. 32. Delaporte, bricks brought to Europe by, i. 284. Deuteronomy quoted, i. 151. Diamond dust,its use by gem engravers, ii. 260. Diarbekir, ii. 203. Dlodorus, i. 5, 120; his vague state- ments as to height of Babylonian temples, 129; statement as to de- struction of the temple of Bel, 137 ; his description of the palaces of Semi- ramis quoted, ii. 34; XCOtvai Sokol, 35 ; his statements as to the size of Babylon, 55 ; his statement, after Ctesias, as to the size of Nineveh, 60; his mention of the statue of Bel, ii. 202. Dionysius Periegetes quoted, i. 299. Diorite,used by the Chaldsean sculptors, i. 141 ; statues from Tello, ii. 175; fragments found at Tello, 190. Dioscorides (or Dioscurides), ii. 263. Disk, the winged, its significance, L 87. Dog, the, in Assyrian sculpture, ii. 143. Dolerite, ii. 175. Domes, see Vaults.