Uruk, 25.
Userhet, priest, 102, pi. 8.
utility in Egyptian art, 113-14.
Valentinus, 312-15.
Valley of the Kings, 104-5.
Van, lake and fortress-capital, 45.
vase-making, glass, 134.
vases, 97, 114-15, 133.
vaults of funeral shrine, 91.
vegetable oils, 293.
Vegetus, C. Septimius, 265.
veneering, 137.
Venice, 362.
Venus, planet, 161.
Vespasian, 288, 344.
vezir (vizier), 202-3, 207.
Victor II, Pope, Chancery of, 251.
village community, 51.
vines, 157.
vineyards, 272.
Virolleaud, C., 62.
vizier (vezir), 202-3, 207,
Volkerwanderung, 43.
vowels, absence of, in Egyptian and
Phoenician scripts, 58,
Vyse, G. W., 136.
Wadi Haifa, 144.
Wadi el-Hammamat, 123, 144-5.
Wadi el-NatrQn, see Nitria.
wailing for the dead, 386.
walls, decoration of, 80; limestone, 91.
waqfs, religious endowments, 371.
war, Greek laws of, 292.
washerman of the dead, the, 377.
water: for levelling in building, 148;
clocks, 163-4; Egyptian sign for,
56, 61; in decoration, 81; lift, 369;
screw, 369; supply, regulation of,
292; wheel, 369.
waxes, 159.
weaving: Badarian, 123; early date of,
130; flax for, 130; home, '279; men-
tioned by Herodotus, 120; method
of, 130; tapestry, 130.
wedges, 146.
weights, 175-7. [224-5.
Wen-Amon, wanderings of, 44, 55, 76,
Weni, vizier, autobiographical narra-
tive of, 73.
Index
wheat, 158.
wheel-marks on pottery, 131.
wheelwrights, 378.
white colour, for painting, 156.
whiting, 156.
Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, U. von, 259.
willow wood, 137.
wills, 201, 271,
Winckelmann, J. J., 83, 249.
Winckler, H., 222 n. 3, 227 n. I.
wine-making, 156-8.
wisdom (Sophia), 313.
Wisdom, book of, 315.
Wisdom literature, 70, 207, 245-8;
Egyptian parallels, 67-70.
Wisdom of Anu, 246; of Ben-Sirack,
see Ecclesiasticus.
women, conservatism of, 386-7; educa-
tion for, in Ptolemaic Egypt, 276; in
office, 378; markets mainly in the
hands of, 382; Street of \Vomen's
Bath, 277.
wood, base for painting, 156; carving,
363; dome of mosques, 365; panels
of Hesi, 87; ritual images in, 94;
statues, 86; see also timber.
wool, 130.
word-divider, in Lachish inscriptions,
59-
workmen's dwellings, 81.
'writers of outlines', no.
writing: as application of art of draw-
ing, 90; in decorative ornament, 361,
363; in Mesopotamia and Egypt, 22;
hi modern Egypt, 378; introduction
in Near East coincided with that of
technique of large-scale metal-work-
ing, 21; question of origin of' writing
people', 124-5.
scripts: Arabic, 378; calligraphic,
90* 92-3, 251, 361-3; cuneiform, see
under cuneiform; demotic Greek,
378; Greek, 340; hieroglyphic, 33,
35> 57-8* 64, 72, 90, 115, 342, 378;
Kufic, 393; Minoan, 23; naskhi, 363 ;
phonetic, 64.
Xenophon, 258.
ocoana (wooden statues), 86.
Yahweh, god, 236, 243-4.