BABYLON AND PERSIA

INDEX. 443kings, 144 ; their origin and ele¬ments as a nation, 267, 268.Median empire,its constitution,share of the Assyrian spoils,r73-tribes, 267, 268.wall, built by Nebuchad¬rezzar, 226.Megiddo, battle of, 171.Mermnada;, the last native dynastyof Lydian kings, founded byGyges, 188, i8g ; fall of the, 312.Migration of the Eranians, fromeast to west, 57, 143 ; bringsthem under Turanian influences,144, ff.Miletus, the queen of Ionian citiesin Asia Minor ; temple of DidymreanApollo at, 209 ; makesterms with Lydia, 218 ; withKyros the Great, 317 ; revoltsagainst Dareios, is besieged,taken, and sacked, 430.Miltiades, the Athenian, proposesto destroy the bridge on theDanube, 428 ; is overruled byHistiaios and the Ionian princes,429 ; wins the battle of Mara¬thon, 432.Mithra, the Eranian light-god,his connection with Ahura-Mazda, 62, 63 ; his mythicalfeatures, 67-69 ;transformation, 69-73.his allegoricalMitra, the Aryan light-god, 41.Mitra-'Varuna, the Aryan duad ordivine pair, 41.Murghab, present name of the siteof Pasargadce, 280, 300.Myazda, offering at sacrifices, 120.Myrina, a Greek city in AsiaMinor, 208.Mysia, a country of Asia Minor,196 ; annexed to Lydia, 217.N.Nabonidus (Nabu-nahid), last kingof Babylon, his accession, 320 ;his fondness for the ancientChaldean gods and sanctuaries.321 ; neglects Marduk andNebo, and makes enemies ofthe Babylonian priesthood, 321,322 ; betrayed by them, 325 ;delivered into the hands of Ky¬ros, 328 ; his death, ib. and 329.Nabopolassar, king of Babylon,dies, 172.Nabu-naliid, see Nabonidus.Nadintabira, the impostor and usur¬per of Babylon under Dareios I.,374 ; captured and slain, 376.Nakhshi-Rustem, rock of, contain¬ing tombs of Akhcemenian kings,369 ; sepulchre of Dareios at,369. 370.Nasu, the corpse fiend, 93 ;exor¬cised by the look of dogs, 93,94. 135 ; purification from, 136 ;probably of Turanian origin,150.Ndvsdri, a city on the westerncoast of India, gives refuge tothe fugitive Parsis, 5.Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon,defeats Necho of Egypt at Kar¬khemish, 172 ; succeeds hisfather Nabopolassar, 172 ; hiscampaign in Syria, 174-177 ;besieges and takes Jerusalem,176 ; appoints Zedekiah king ofJudah, 177 ; retakes and de¬stroys Jerusalem, 182, 183 ; be¬sieges Tyre, 184 ; makes peacebetween Lydia and Media, 221 ;his works of defence and embel¬lishment in Babylonia and inBabylon itself, 225-241 ;deathof, 3?9-Necho II. succeeds his fatherPsammetik,and plans a cam¬paign into Asia, 170 ; his war inSyria, ib. ; defeats Josiah ofJudah at Megiddo, 171 ; is de¬feated by Nebuchadrezzar atKarkhemish, 172 ; dies, 180.Nehavend, battle of, won by theArabs over the Persians, 2.Nergal-shar-uzzur(Neriglissar),successor of Avil-Marduk, 320.