ancestor cult 270 , 281
Andarig 401
Anshan 24
Anshar 538
antimony 127
Anu 163 , 324 , 342 , 343 , 380 , 382 , 427 ,
535
Anu-aba-uter 427 , 429
Anu-bel-shunu 427 , 429
Anunitum 322
Anzu 322 , 448 , 452
Apkallu 383 , 476
Aplahanda 101
apples and apple trees 47 , 178
Apsu 352 ; basin 323 , 325 , 327
Arabia 131
Arabs 14 , 289 , 296 , 567
Arahtum 219 , 292
Aramaic 224 , 245 , 429 , 447 , 453 , 455 ,
456 , 467 , 474 , 481 , 563 , 573
Arameans 7 , 14 , 26 , 288 – 97 , 495 , 533
architecture 1 , 24 , 81 – 93
archives 6 , 41 , 54 , 66 , 92 , 199 – 200 , 201 ,
202 , 205 , 206 – 7 , 219 , 220 , 227 , 232 ,
236 , 271 , 273 , 285 , 410 , 475 , 488 , 496 ,
510 , 514 , 517 , 519 , 566
ards 54 , 61
arithmetic 422 – 3
armies 215 , 216 , 273 , 279 , 296 , 534 , 567 ,
569
Arnuwanda 506
aromatics 5 , 132
arsenic/arsenical bronze 127
Artaxerxes I 120 , 569
Asaluhhi 349 , 378 , 382 – 4 , 390 , 393 , 477 ,
537
Ashipu 365 , 367 , 374 , 378 , 393 , 426 – 7 ,
451
Ashiputu 475 , 478 , 480
Ashnan 326
Ashurbanipal 76 , 135 , 155 – 8 , 156 , 473 ,
277 , 478 , 496 , 533 – 4 , 536 , 539
Ashur-bel-kala 531
Ashur-bel-nisheshu 529
Ashur-nadin-shumi 533
Ashurnasirpal II 128
Ashur-ra’im-napishti 453 – 5
Ashur-uballit 493 – 4 , 496 , 509 , 528 , 529 ,
538
Assur: city 151 , 188 , 303 , 323 , 376 , 393 ,
450 , 453 , 528 , 534 , 535 , 542 ; god 535 ,
536 , 537 – 8
Assyria 2 , 3 , 9 , 128 , 437 , 439 , 453 , 463 ,
473 , 490 – 501 , 507 , 527 – 39 , 553
‘Assyrian Dream Book’ 368
astrologers 9 , 365 , 455 , 456
astrology 274 , 364 , 465 – 9
astronomers 9 , 432 , 475 , 480
‘Astronomical Diaries’ 363
astronomy 3 , 9 , 274 , 365 , 460 – 9 , 476 ,
479 – 80 , 482 , 500
Atrahasis myth 219 , 352 , 448 , 450 , 452 ,
477
Auramazda 571
Aya 102Baba 252 , 326 , 328 , 398
Baba-ahhe-iddina 27
Babylon (city) 1 , 2 , 3 , 26 , 28 , 54 , 67 – 76 ,
155 , 168 , 201 , 204 , 210 , 211 , 219 , 225 ,
236 , 256 , 266 – 7 , 280 , 323 , 342 , 349 ,
351 – 2 , 377 , 413 , 426 , 455 , 473 , 477 ,
503 , 519 , 531 , 533 – 4 , 536 , 543 , 558 ,
564 , 566 , 570 , 573
‘Babylonian Chronicle’ 503 , 533 , 546 – 7
Badakshan 96 , 130
Badtibira 279 , 339
Baghdad 2 , 28 , 83
bakers 174 , 200 , 229 , 269
baking 176 , 308
bankers 236
barley 57 , 130 , 172 , 177 , 180 , 191 , 218 ,
231 , 238 , 244 , 257
Barnamtara 252 , 255
Barutu 475 , 478
basalt 162
bathrooms 71 – 2 , 323
Bau 258
Bazi Dynasty 25
bdellium 135
beads 97 , 127 , 129 , 130
beduins 41
Belet-ekallim 323
Belet-ili 384
Bel-ibni 533
Beltiya 342 , 343
beer 173 , 177 , 180 , 230 , 231 , 238 , 252 ,
268 , 271 , 321 , 396 , 419— Index —