Benteshina 511 – 12
Berossus 476
Bible 1 , 541 – 59
birds 172 , 175 , 179 , 366 , 370 , 433
Bit-Amukan(n)I 26 – 7 , 293 , 296
Bit-Dakkuru 26 – 7 , 293 , 296
Bit-Gambulu 26 – 7 , 295 , 297
Bit Puqudu 26 – 7 , 293 , 295 , 297
bitumen 71 , 84
Bit-Yakin 26 – 8 , 293 , 296 , 297
Boghazköy 377 , 517
booty 279 , 356 , 530
Borsippa 26 , 66 – 8 , 70 , 169 , 225 , 226 , 239 ,
292 , 323 , 356 , 426 , 473 , 519 , 531 , 533 ,
536
boundaries 22 – 3 , 74 , 160 ; markers 22 ; of
states 22 , 497
boundary stones 160 – 8 , 164 – 5
boxwood 133 , 155
bread 173 , 419
brewers 18 , 173 , 200 , 229 , 269
bronze 125 , 128 , 187 , 195
builders 59 , 81 , 93 , 155
building 232 , 274 , 277 , 395 ; monumental
84 – 91 ; rituals 155 – 7
bullae 101 , 120 , 419
Burnaburiash 84 , 488 , 494 , 505 – 6 , 509 ,
528 , 529
businessmen 202 , 231
butchers 229
butter 143
calcite 131
calendars 44 , 254 , 327 , 365 , 465 , 536
Cambyses 496 , 565
camels 296 ; herding 14
canals 69 , 83 , 187 , 219 , 225 , 231 , 238 ,
244 , 252 , 290 , 533
caravans 212 , 518
Carchemish 47 , 101 , 491 – 2 , 496 , 516 , 518 ,
521 , 546 – 7
carnelian 127 , 131 , 453
carpets 147
‘Catalogue of Texts and Authors’ 477
cattle 55 , 59 , 199 , 294 , 323 , 326
celestial divination 460 – 3
cemeteries 83
cereals 15 , 44 – 5 , 177 , 191 , 225 , 257
Chagar Bazar 92
chalcedony 118 – 20
Chaldean 364 ; dynasty 111 , 227 ; tribes 7 ,
14 , 27 , 288 – 97 , 531 , 533
chariots 99 , 150 , 216 – 17 , 521
cheese 179
chick peas 46 , 178
chieftains 27 , 131 , 296
childbirth 300 , 341 , 394 – 5
chlorite 95 , 132
Choga Zanbil 108
‘Chronicle P’ 528 , 530
chronicles 26 , 224 , 288
cities 5 , 14 , 66 – 76 , 200 , 228 , 366 ; gods
26 , 268 , 319 ; layout 68 , 81 – 4 ; maps 75 ;
state 22 ; walls 67 , 68 , 75 ; see also
Babylon (city)
Claudius Aelianus 457 – 8
climate 2 , 40
cloth 141 – 52 ; production 141 – 2
clothing 5 , 105 , 141 – 3 , 144 , 157 , 169 ,
201 , 231 , 355 , 434 , 519
cobalt 127
Code of Hammurabi 103 , 157 – 60 , 159 ,
206 , 207 – 8 , 276 , 348 – 9 , 361
commentaries 442 , 481
commoners 257 – 9
concubines 307 , 309 , 569
conspicuous consumption 271 – 2
contraception 305
contracts 95 , 301 , 309 , 434
copper 5 , 124 – 8 , 133 , 160 , 187 , 195 , 201 ,
212 – 13 , 231
cooking 92 , 176 – 7
coriander 46 , 178
correspondence 408 – 14 , 488 – 90 ,
510 – 11
corvées 191 , 252 , 530
counters 419
countryside 4 , 92 , 193 , 201 , 257 , 291
courtyards 71 , 84 – 5 , 89 , 91 , 434 , 519
craft: workers 59 , 82 , 111 ; workshops 200 ,
253
credit 23
cucumbers 172 , 178
cultivation 15 , 54
cults 229 , 254 , 270 , 321 , 323 , 326 , 333 ,
348 , 479 , 499 , 537 , 539 ; images/statues
355 – 6 ; personnel 343
cumin 46 , 176 , 178— Index —