Chaldea: From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria

by Zénaïde A. Ragozin

their strange ideas about the colossal winged bulls and lions and their destination, [24]-[25];

their habit of plundering ancient tombs at Warka, [86];

their conquests and high culture in Asia and Africa, [118].

Arbela, city of Assyria, built in hilly region, [50].

Architecture, Chaldean, created by local conditions, [37]-[39];

Assyrian, borrowed from Chaldea, [50].

Areph-Kasdîm, see Arphaxad, meaning of the word, [200].

[Arphaxad], eldest son of Shem, [200].

Arphakshad, see [Arphaxad.]

Asshur, a son of Shem, eponymous ancestor of the Assyrians in Genesis X., [131].