$H Kochome. &quo= t;Black Bull" =

The ancient name of the town of Sakkarah in Lower Egypt. (1876c1)

$H Kohl. Egypt

Uaz and = Meszemt. Green and black cosmetic used for painting the eyelids and eyebrows in or= der to make the eyes look large. Healing properties were also ascribed to the= use of it; for in the Leyden Museum there is a to= ilet box with four divisions, and the purposes of the different preparations a= re thus described; "for opening the sight," "for expelling tears," "for expelling the flower," "daily eye-paint." Sulphide of lead, sulphate of lead, green carbonate of copper appear to have entered largely into the composition of kohl, which points distinctly to commercial intercourse with the east from the earlie= st period of Egyptian history. (See<= /i> STIBIUM.)(1902b1)

$H Kolpia. "= ;The Wind" = Phoenicia

In Phenician mythology the husband of Bahu, or the female = earth. His name was also written Colpias. (1876c1)

$H Komos. Greece

In Greek mythology the guardian of festivities. (1876c1)

$H Koope. Old Englsih

O.E. A cope.(1883m1)=

$H Kosai.

A leader or chief of the Beni-Koreish, about A.D. 500. He enlarged the town of Mecca, and rebuilt the Caaba, to do which he was obl= iged to cut down the sacred grove of date palms which surrounded it. (1876c1)<= o:p>

$H Kossi. See Cossaeans. (1876c1)

$H Koukim. Hebrew

Heb. Kilns for the cremation o= f the dead, such as are occasionally found in the ancient tombs of the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna).(1883m1)

$H Kourganes.

Or. Grassy mounds, s= uch as are frequently met with in Russia in Europe, and which bear a strong resemblance to tumuli and barrows. (See TUMULUS.)(1883m1)<= o:p>

$H Koyunjik.

The modern name of the mounds which occupy= the site of the city of Nineveh.(1876c1)=

$H Krems White or Vienna White.

A pigment manufactur= ed at Krems in Austria. It is the finest white lead used in oils.(1883m1)

$H Kritoboulos.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Egypt

A nobleman of Cyrene, whose daughter Ladike became one of the wives of Aahmes II., king o= f Egypt. (1876c1)

$H Krouts. Hindu

Hind. An ornament resembling embroidery. The monuments of Khmer art are adorned with krouts of a rich ornamentation, somewhat similar to certain ornaments of the Fre= nch Renaissance. (See Fig. 408.)(1883m1)

$H Krumhorn.

An old musical instr= ument of the cornet kind.(1883m1)

$H Kshatrya. Hindu

The military caste of the Hindus, who were said to have been created from the heart of Brahma. (1876c1)

$H Kua.

The name of the great oracle of Marduk at Babylon. (1876c1)

$H Kuba= n.

A Nubian village, near to which were situa= ted the ancient Egyptian gold mines, which were much worked by the kings of t= he earlier dynasties. It is famous from a stèle<= /span> which was found there recently, in which Rameses II. in singular phraseology relates that there= being no water in the locality, and the mines being about to be abandoned in consequence, he caused a well to be dug, "he spoke to the rock and t= he water flowed out." The actual site of the gold mines was at a place = now called by the Arabs Wady Ollaki. They were explored by order of Mahomet Ali, but with little result as to = the benefit to be derived from re-opening them. (1876c1)

$H Kudur-lagamar. "Servant of Lagamar."

A king of Elam, whose name has very recently been found on the monuments. He was the Che= dorlaomer of Hebrew history. (Boscawen.) (1876c1)

$H Kudur-mabuk.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>

A Syrian or Elamite king, the son of Simti-Silhak, who governed <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Babylonia by his son Ardusin= as viceroy. He is supposed to have been a descendant of Kudur-Iagamar, the Chedorlaomer of Hebrew history. (1876c1)<= o:p>

$H Kudur-nan-hundi. See Kudur-nan-khundi, king of Elam. (1876c1)

$H Kudur-nan-khundi I.<= /span>

An early Elamite king, so called by the Assyrians. He invaded Babylonia in the time of Bel-sumizzir, and carried away into Elam, from Erech, an image of the goddess Nana. It remained in Elam till it was restored to Nine= veh by Assurbanipal, when he subjugated the count= ry after a lapse of 1635 years. (1876c1)

$H Kudur-nan-khundi II.=

The son of Sutruk-Nan= khundi, king of Elam. He was the opponent of Sennacherib, who burnt many of his cities, and obl= iged him to retire from his capital, Madaktu, to t= he mountains. He died suddenly, and was succeeded by his brother, Umman-minan, B.C. 695. (1876c1)

$H Kudurru.

One of the two sons of Ummanaldas, a former king of Elam, who together with the sons of Urtaki, the late king, fled for refuge into Assyria upon the accession of Tiumman. (1876c1)

$H Kufic. (See CUFIC.) (1883m1)

$H Kukuru. Assyria

An Assyrian general, who recorded an eclip= se or darkening of the sun in the reign of Assurbanipal= . (Fox Talbot.) (1876c1)

$H Kulal. "The Perfect."

A Himyaritic d= eity, a form of the god Il. (1876c1)

$H Kullani.

A Syrian town, which was conquered by Tiglath Pileser II. It = was the Calno of Hebrew history. (1876c1)=

$H Kullimir.

An Assyrian city besieged by the rebel Tar= tan Iludaria, whom the inhabitants surprised and slew i= n a night sally, and then sent his head to their sovereign Assurbanipal. (1876c1)

$H Kulmu. [See Kulsu – Editor]

$H Kulsu. Wrongly read = Kulmu.

An Etruscan Chaonian<= /span> goddess, with buskins, and shears in one hand and a flaming funeral torch= in the other, who on a sarcophagus from Chiusi is represented as issuing from the door of a tomb. (1876c1)

$H Kumbecephalic.

The term used by Professor Daniel Wilson to denote the ante-bronze period dolichocephalic= type of skull. See Dolichocephalic. (1876c1)

$H Kummeh. Egypt

A crude brick fort standing on a natural eminence on the east bank of the <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Nile, about thirty miles above the first cataract= . It was built by Usertsen III. as a protection against the Nubians. (See SEMNEH.)(1902b1)

$H Kummu. "Palace." Assyria

A frequent affix to the names of towns in Assyrian geography. (1876c1)

$H Kummuha.

A city on the Euphrates, near to the sourc= es of the Tigris, where Tigl= ath Pileser I. defeated the invasion of the Hittites into Assyria, under their king Ki= literu. (1876c1)

$H Kunali.

The chief town of the petty Syrian kingdom of Unqi= . It was destroyed by Tiglath Pil= eser II., who afterwards re-established it as an Assyrian garrison town. (1876= c1)

$H Kunuss-kun-kil-asshur. "I the King Vicegerent of the god Assur."

An Assyrian royal epithet out of which the Greek writers fabricated the name Conosconcoleros. (1876c1)

$H Kuphi. Egypt

A peculiar kind of incense used in Egyptian worship, the ancient receipts for making which are still preserved in the papyri. (1876c1)

$H Kurban.

A city or district near Nineveh of which Bel-sar-anni was the prefect under Sennacherib. It revolted to As= surdan, and was reconquered by S= amas Rimmon or Samsi-Vul for Shalmaneser II. (1876c1)

$H Kuribattaraya. "Lord of Sheep."

A Kurumba deit= y. (1876c1)

$H Kurigalzu I.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Babylonia

A very early king of Babylonia, a successor of Hammurabi. Nothing else is kno= wn respecting him, but he must not be confounded with the later king of Babylonia of the same name.(1876c1)

$H Kurigalzu II.= Babylonia

A son of Burnaburyas<= /span> II., who became king of Babylonia. Not= hing is known respecting him. (1876c1)

$H Kurigalzu II.= or III. Babylonia

A king of Babylonia= , the son of Burnaburyas II., and very probably= the same as Kurigalzu II. He built a city called = Dur-kurigalzu, and restored many of the Babylonian temples. He also erected the temple of Bit-ugal in honour of the god Bel= . (1876c1)

$H Kurush.

The Persian form of the royal name called = by the Greek historians Cyrus. (1876c1)

$H Kurush. Or Cyrus.

The grandson of Astya= ges, and the son of Cambyses, king of Persia, by his wife Mandane. Owing to the apprehensions of his grandfat= her that he might usurp the throne which he intended for his two other grands= ons Khsathrita and Sithratakhma, (the Xathritas and Sithr= atachmes of Herodotus), he was exposed on a desert mountain, where he was brought = up by an herdsman of Astyages, who named him Agradates, but afterwards Kuru= sh, in memory of a still-born son of his own. If the Greek historians are to = be credited, certain romantic incidents led to the lad's discovery by his grandfather. He soon revolted against Astyages, who at last allowed him to go as Satrap with his father = Cambyses into Persia, where he was eminently successful as a soldier. He then incited the Persi= ans to rise against the Medes, who had overthrown the Ze= ndic religion, and to re-establish the faith of Zarathust= ra or Zoroaster, B.C. 559. After this he made war with the Lydians, whom he defeated and annexed to his empire by the conquest of Sardis. He then,= but with less success, attacked the cities of Greece, and afterwards marched into India. Having subdued that country, or at all events a portion of its Southern coast, he joined with Cambyses and besieged t= he city of Babylon<= /st1:City>, which fell before their armies, thus terminating the Chaldean empire, B.C. 538. About that time he granted permission to the Jews, who = were then in captivity in Babylonia, to return to their own country and rebuil= d Jerusalem, which= they did in great numbers, B.C. 536. After the reduction of all Chaldea, Kurush a secon= d time invaded Lydia, the people having attempted to throw off his yoke, B.C. 546. He then led = his armies against the Massagetae, a Turanian or Turkish tribe inhabiting the Steppes to= the North of the Jaxartes. At first he obtained t= he victory, taking captive Spargapises, the son = of their Queen Tomyris, who killed himself for s= hame. A second engagement followed however, and in that after a long continued = hand to hand fight, the king of the Persians was slain, and his head cut off a= nd thrown into a bowl of human blood by Tomyris.= After the battle the Persians obtained back the body of Ku= rush, and gave it a grand burial at Pasargadae, and erected a splendid monument there, representing him as a glorified spirit= , or one of the Amshaspands, with four large wings= , and wearing the great Egyptian Atef crown of justification. Above his head hovers the image of his sovereign deity Orm= uzd, and a short Cuneiform text simply tells the passer= by: "I am Cyrus, the king, the Achaemenian.&= quot; The tomb is now called by the Turks the tomb of the mother of Solomon. (1876c1)

$H Kuruzza.

A city near Damascus, which was conquered by Tiglath Pileser II. on his march to assist Ahaz, king of Judah. (1876c1)

$H Kushites.

The Classical appellation for the Negroes inhabiting Ethiopi= a, who were a continual source of annoyance to the Egyptian kings of the ear= lier dynasties. They were subsequently incorporated with the empire by Thothmes I. (1876c1)

$H Kussier.

A Turkish musical instrument, consisting of five strings, stretched over a skin that covers= a kind of basin.(1883m1)

$H Kustaspi.

A king of Kummuha in Northern Syria. He combined with Sarduri, king of Ar= menia, and other kings, to resist the conquests of Tiglath<= /span> Pileser II., but in vain, as they were all de= feated at the battle of Kummuha, and rendered tribut= ary to Assyria. (1876c1)

$H Kusu.

The Assyrian name of the land of Ethiopia<= /st1:PlaceName>. (1876c1)

$H Kute.

The Assyrian name of a city or district ca= lled by the Accadians Teggaba= ki, the modern Ibrahim. It was conquered by Shalmaneser I. when he marched to the relief of his ally Maruduk-zi= kur-izkur, king of Babylon. (1876c1)

$H Kuwera. Hindu

In Hindu mythology the god of wealth. (187= 6c1)

$H Kyaxares.

A king of the Carucas= si. See Kast= arite. (1876c1)

$H Kylikomanteia.

The Classical name of a kind of divination= by cups containing mystical sentences, a form of enchantment much practised among the Assyrians. (1876c1)<= /span>

$H Kylin.

An animal somewhat r= esembling a dragon and covered with scales, frequently depicted on or forming the subject of pieces of Chinese porcelain. It is of good omen.(1891a1)<= /o:p>

$H Kymbium. (See CYMBIUM.)<= /span> (1883m1)

$H Kynonpolis. <= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Egypt

The Greek name for Ka-sa; the capital of the seventeenth nome of Upper Egypt, the modern El K= es. The chief deity worshipped there was Anubis.(= 1902b1)

$H Kyphi. Egypt

Egyp. A perfume which was burnt before the statues = of the gods; it was composed of sixteen different ingredients.=

$H Kyphi. Egypt

= An Egyptian sacred incense,= the receipts for preparing which are still extant. (1876c1)=

$H Kypranor.

Another form of the K= ypriote royal name Pasicrates, or rather Stasicrates, which see. (1876c1)<= /p>

$H Kytalos.

A peculiarly shaped staff, by which the Spartan kings and generals sent private messages to the Ephori. To use it a piece of paper was wound tightly upon the Kytalos, and the message was then written upon it. On unwinding the slip of writin= g the words would present no intelligible connection till the message was rewou= nd upon a staff, the counterpart of the one upon which it was originally wou= nd. (1876c1)