INDEX. 



N.B. — The headings in large type are for all the sub-headings that follow. 



Adam and Eve, supposed cylinder of, Ii8. 



Amulets, clay, with sacred tree, ' Tel-el- Amarna,' 98. 



ANTHEMION, or palmette, origin of, 99 and 103 ; with lotus bud and 

 Assyrian luck-horns, figure of, 107 ; with pomegranate (or lotus bulb), 

 figures of, 105. 



ASSYRIANS — ancient contact with Egyptians, 103 ; art of tanning 

 among, 56 ; character of, xv ; degradation of sym]:)ols among, xxiv ; 

 'key of life,' probable meaning of, among, xix ; mistake of inter- 

 preters about tabernacle, xvii ; mistakes of interpreters, due to smallness 

 of sculpture slab, xvii ; mixture of the natural with the supernatural 

 among, xxi and xxv ; poetry of, xv ; sexes of date tree known to, 73 ; 

 transformations of symbols among, xix and xxiii ; 'tree of life,' 

 probable meaning among, xix j vine common among, 5 1 ; wine known 

 to, 52. 



B. 



BANANA, 15; antiquity of, in Asia, 17; brought to Babylon by 

 traders, 20; character of fruit, 22; figures of, 15 and 22; geo- 

 graphical distribution, 16; history of, 15; origin of name, 18; 

 propagation by seed, 19. 



BAOBAB, 35 ; figure of, 37 ; geographical distribution, 35-6 ; Hindoo 

 name for, 37. 



Bident received from Deity, 78. 



BULL and lotus, Mr. Goodyear 's, 120; vast strength of, xiii. 



