PAGE

EXAMPLES OF RACIAL TYPES facing
From a drawing by E. Wallcousins

2

STATUE OF A ROYAL PERSONAGE OR OFFICIAL OF NON-SEMITIC ORIGIN

12

WORSHIP OF THE MOON GOD (CYLINDER-SEAL)

50

WINGED MAN-HEADED LION
From N.W. Palace of Nimroud

62

TWO FIGURES OF DEMONS

72

WINGED HUMAN-HEADED COW(?)
From Kouyunjik(Nineveh)

100

CYLINDER-SEAL IMPRESSIONS SHOWING MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES AND DEITIES

106

PLAQUE OF UR-NINA

116

SILVER VASE DEDICATED TO THE GOD NIN-GIRSU BY ENTEMENA

120

STELE OF NARAM SIN

128

GUDEA
From the statue in the Louvre, Paris

130

"THE SEVEN TABLETS OF CREATION" facing
From the library of Ashur-bani-pal at Kouyunjik(Nineveh)

138

SLIPPER-SHAPED COFFIN, MADE OF GLAZED EARTHENWARE

214

STELE OF HAMMURABI, WITH "CODE OF LAWS"

222

HAMMURABI RECEIVING THE "CODE OF LAWS" FROM THE SUN GOD

248

THE HORSE IN WARFARE (ASHUR-NATSIR-PAL AND ARMY ADVANCING
Marble slab from N.W. Palace of Nimroud

270

LETTER FROM TUSHRATTA, KING OF MITANNI, TO AMENHOTEP III, KING OF EGYPT

280

THE GOD NINIP AND ANOTHER DEITY

302

SYMBOLS OF DEITIES AS ASTRONOMICAL SIGNS
From sculptured stone in the British Museum

306

ASHUR SYMBOLS

334

WINGED DEITIES KNEELING BESIDE A SACRED TREE
Marble slab from N.W. Palace of Nimroud

340

EAGLE-HEADED WINGED DEITY (ASHUR)

344

ASSYRIAN KING HUNTING LIONS

384

TYRIAN GALLEY PUTTING OUT TO SEA
Marble slab from Kouyunjik(Nineveh)

388

STATUE OF ASHUR-NATSIR-PAL
From S.W. Palace of Nimroud

396

DETAILS FROM SECOND SIDE OF BLACK OBELISK OF SHALMANESER III facing

410

STATUE OF NEBO, DEDICATED BY ADAD-NIRARI IV AND THE QUEEN SAMMU-RAMMAT

422

TIGLATH-PILESER IV IN HIS CHARIOT

446

COLOSSAL WINGED AND HUMAN-HEADED BULL AND MYTHOLOGICAL BEING
From doorway in Palace of Sargon at Khorsabad

456

ASSAULT ON THE CITY OF . . .ALAMMU (JERUSALEM) BY THE ASSYRIANS UNDER SENNACHERIB
Marble slab from Kouyunjik(Nineveh)

468

ASHUR-BANI-PAL RECLINING IN A BOWER
Marble slab from Kouyunjik(Nineveh)

486

PERSIANS BRINGING CHARIOTS, RINGS, AND WREATHS
Bas-relief from Persepolis

494

MAP OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA

xx

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THE TEMPTATION OF EA-BANI (p. 173)
From the painting by E. Wallcousins

Frontispiece

ISHTAR IN HADES facing
From the painting by E. Wallcousins

96

MERODACH SETS FORTH TO ATTACK TIAMAT
From the painting by E. Wallcousins

144

THE SLAYING OF THE BULL OF ISHTAR
From the painting by E. Wallcousins

176

THE BABYLONIAN DELUGE
From the painting by E. Wallcousins

192

NEBUCHADNEZZAR IN THE HANGING GARDENS
From the painting by E. Wallcousins

220

THE BABYLONIAN MARRIAGE MARKET
From the painting by Edwin Long, R.A., in the Royal
Holloway College. By permission of the Trustees

224

THE SHEPHERD FINDS THE BABE SEMIRAMIS
From the painting by E. Wallcousins

424

CHAP.

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INTRODUCTION

xxi

I.

THE RACES AND EARLY CIVILIZATION OF BABYLONIA

1

II.

THE LAND OF RIVERS AND THE GOD OF THE DEEP

21

III.

RIVAL PANTHEONS AND REPRESENTATIVE DEITIES

40

IV.

DEMONS, FAIRIES, AND GHOSTS

59

V.

MYTHS OF TAMMUZ AND ISHTAR

81

VI.

WARS OF THE CITY STATES OF SUMER AND AKKAD

109

VII.

CREATION LEGEND: MERODACH THE DRAGON SLAYER

138

VIII.

DEIFIED HEROES: ETANA AND GILGAMESH

163

IX.

DELUGE LEGEND, THE ISLAND OF THE BLESSED, AND HADES

190

X.

BUILDINGS AND LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF BABYLON

217

XI.

THE GOLDEN AGE OF BABYLONIA

240

XII.

RISE OF THE HITTITES, MITANNIANS, KASSITES, HYKSOS, AND ASSYRIANS

260

XIII.

ASTROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY

287

XIV.

ASHUR THE NATIONAL GOD OF ASSYRIA

326

XV.

CONFLICTS FOR TRADE AND SUPREMACY

356

XVI.

RACE MOVEMENTS THAT SHATTERED EMPIRES

376

XVII.

THE HEBREWS IN ASSYRIAN HISTORY

394

XVIII.

THE AGE OF SEMIRAMIS

417

XIX.

ASSYRIA'S AGE OF SPLENDOUR

444

XX.

THE LAST DAYS OF ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA

477

INDEX

501