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 Index 419 Tents, their forms, i. 175. Teradas, i. 10. Terah, i. 15. Terra-cotta statuettes, early Chaldean, ii. 195. Tête-de-pont, on the Balawat gates, ii. 214. Texier quoted, i. 122; description of the great mosque at Ispahan, 287. Textiles, ii. 363. Thapsacus, ii. 374. Thebes, i. 56. Thomas, Felix, his opinion on the roofing question, i. 163, 224. Thothmes III., ii. 284. Thresholds, i. 239 ; sometimes of metal, 241. Thunderbolt, origin of the classic form of, i. 75. Tidjaris, ii. 312. Tiele, his Manuel des Religions quoted, i. 60, 86, 89. Tiglath-Pileser I., i. 39 ; ii. 203. Tiglath-Pileser II., i. 43; ii. 101, 218. Tigris, its inundations, i. 9. Tiles, glazed ; the manufacture not extinct in India (note by editor), i. 287 ; with central boss, 294. Toilet, articles of, ii. 349. Tomb, comparison between the Egyp- tian and Mesopotamian T., i. 336; absence of funerary inscriptions, 336 ; no Assyrian tombs yet discovered, 336 ; conjectures as to how the Assyrians disposed of their dead, 337 ; Loftus's explanation perhaps the best, 338 ; the principle of the Chaldsean tomb similar to that of the Mastaba, 355 ; its shape, 356- 360 ; its situation, 360-364. Transliteration, difficulties of, i. 17. Trees, how indicated in the reliefs, ii. 207, 223. Tree of Life, i. 212. Tripods, ii. 323. Tunica talaria, ii. 94. Turanians, said to form part of the early population of Chaldsea, i. 19 ; etymology of the word, 20, 22. Turkish compared to the tongue of • early Chaldsea, i. 19. Turks, their bad adminstration, i. n. Tyre, i. 16. U Ulbar, temple of, its angle-stone, i. 315. Unicorn, the, in Assyrian sculpture, ii. 164. Ur, i. 1, 15,38, 47 ; ii. 265. Uroukh (or Erech), i. 38 ; the stones worshipped in its chief temple, 62. Van, Lake, i. 395; ii. 213; remains of furniture found there, 314. Vaults, their common use in Mesopo- tamia, i. 144; their construction without centres, 167 ; their preva- lence in Babylon according to Strabo, 169; at Firouz-Abad, 169; at Sar- bistan, 169; of Sargon's gateways, 224. Vegetation, marsh, ii. 223. Ventilating pipes in Chaldaean build- ings, i. 157. Virgil quoted, i. 64. Vitruvius quoted, i. it 6. Vogue, de M., ii. 314. Volcanoes in the valley of the Khabour, i. 121. Volutes, i. 205, 209. Vulnirari III., ii. 40. Vulush III., ii. 217. W Walls, construction of, i. 147 ; height of W. at Khorsabad, 151 ; orna- mentation of W. at Khorsabad, 151; of Babylon, as described by Dio- dorus after Ctesias, 282 ; of Dour- Saryoukin, their good preservation, 282 ; height of the W. of Babylon, ii. 6 3 . Warka (the ancient Erech), i. 24, 38,' 245, 272; palace at, ii. 33, 256, 306, 308. Wedges, the, i. 2i~; compared with the hieroglyphs and Chinese characters, 21; original constitution of, 23; originally perhaps cut on bark of trees, 27; terra-cotta peculiarly well adapted for them, 28 ; their ideo- graphic origin, 29. Weights, Mesopotamian, ii. 220. Wheat, the origin of its cultivation, ii. 399. Windows, i. 236. Winged bulls, their height, i. 268; small model bull from Nimroud, ii. 113. Wuswas, i. 245, 272, 371; ii. 33.