4i6 Index. Pallacopas, Lake, i. 53. Palm-bark, represented by Ninevite sculptors, i. 202. Palmyra, i. 349 ; ii. 374. Pamir, i. ax. Paradise (or Park), ii. 51. Parasol, ii. 203. Parthians, succeeded by the Sassanids, i- 57- Paving, three systems of, i. 238. Pediment, i. 394. Peretié, his bronze plaque, i. 349. Percy, Dr., ii. 312. Pergamus, ii. 286. Pericles, ii. s^ 2 - Hepl <f>v<reu)s, the Greek philosophic poems of the sixth century, ii. 397. Perrot and Chipiez, Art in Aitcient Egypt quoted, i. 13, 23, 61, 86, 208, 213, 222, 234, 246, 248, 268, 322 ; ii- I3I-I35- Persepolis, i. 88. Phidias, i. 58 ; ii. 286. Philostratus quoted, i. 299, 379. Phoenicia, ii. 172. Phoenicians, their invention of the alphabet, i. 23. Pictography, i. 31. Piers, their restricted use, i. 132. Pigments, ii. 294. Pilasters, i. 216. Pinches, T. G., i. 195 ; quoted, ii. 213. Pivots (door-pivots), i. 240. Place, Victor, quoted, i. 116, 118, 138; his discovery of a cedar beam at Khorsabad, 140 ; 148 ; his opinion on the roofing question, 163 ; statement as to the timber found in the excava- tions, 164; his discovery of frag- mentary vaulted ceilings among the ruins, 165, 173, 183, 186-189, 191, 192, 202, 208, 224, 243, 248, 266; loss of his collections in the Tigris, 285; on the plan of Sargon's palace at Khorsabad, ii. 32 ; his description of the French consulate at Mossoul, ii. 71 ; his opinion as to the use of colour in Assyrian architecture, 246. Planisphere, fragments found at Kou- yundjik, i. 72. Plans, peculiarities of Mesopotamian, i. 328. Plato, ii. 397. Plautus, ii. 364. Plinth, painted black at Khorsabad, i. 272, 291. Pliny, quoted by Rawlinson, i. 4 ; calls the whole of Mesopotamia Assyria, 5, 71; quoted, ii. 364. Plutarch (pseudo), treatise on Isis and Osiris, i. 58. Polychromy, ii. 243 ; traces of colour still perceptible on the sculptures in the Louvre and the British Museum, 248 ; " natural polychromy," 249. Polydemonism, i. 62. Polytheism, a development from the worship of stars and planets, i. 75. Tompeii, i. 139. Pongnon, ii. 61, 226. Population, elements of the P. in Mesopotamia, i. 13. Porches, i. 218. Porphyrius, i. 71. Portes ornées, Khorsabad, i. 217, 227. Pottery, ii. 298. Praxiteles, i. 58; ii. 286. Prisse d'Avennes quoted, i. 305. Proportions of early Assyrian figures, ii. 203. Prostitutions, religious, at Babylon, i. 89, 377- Ptah, i. 78, 79. Ptolemy, quoted by Rawlinson, i. 4 ; his astronomical canon, i. 71. Pyrgoteles, ii. 263. Racine, ii. 71. Raman, i. 75 ; ii. 89. Rassam, H., his discovery of a metal threshold at Borsippa, i. 241, 256; his explorations under Sir H. Rawlin- son's surveillance, ii. 7 ; excavations at Kouyundjik, 48, 118. Rawlinson, Prof., his description of the physical characteristics of Chaldsea, i. 2 ; 47, 71, 80, 211, 277 ; quoted, ii. 1 ; quoted in connection with Semira- mis, and her possible identification with Sammouramit, 218; on the question of polychromy, 247. Rawlinson, Sir Henry, quoted, i. 22, 156 ; his explorations, ii. 7. Rehoboth, i. 14. Rennell, his Herodotus quoted, i. 281. Repoussé work, ii. 116. Resen, i. 14, 122. Rhea, i. 374. Rhind, H., i. 279. Rhodes, ii. 286. Rich, his observations, on the construe-