The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . fraph. vi. 1). Plinyidentifies Adiabene witli Assyria(77. K V. 12). If the Huzzab ofNahum is really the Zab region (Smiths Biblical Dictionary, subvoc.), that prophet would make thesame identification. When Strabo(xvi. 1, § 1) and Arrian {Exp. 7) place Aturia on the left bankof the Tigris only, tliey indicate asimilar feeling. » See above, pages 228 and 229. They are less numerous northof the Sinjar. (See Layard, Ninevehand Babylon, p.
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . fraph. vi. 1). Plinyidentifies Adiabene witli Assyria(77. K V. 12). If the Huzzab ofNahum is really the Zab region (Smiths Biblical Dictionary, subvoc.), that prophet would make thesame identification. When Strabo(xvi. 1, § 1) and Arrian {Exp. 7) place Aturia on the left bankof the Tigris only, tliey indicate asimilar feeling. » See above, pages 228 and 229. They are less numerous northof the Sinjar. (See Layard, Ninevehand Babylon, p. 252.) Still tliercarc a certain number of ancient mounds in the more northern plain.(Ibid. pp. 334, 335; and compareNineveh and its Bemaias, vol. 311.) - At Arban. (J^ineveh and Baby-lon, pp. 275, 276.) 3 Ibid. pp. 297-300. 4 Ibid. 1). 312, and note. •^ The colossal Uons at this place,12 feet long and 7 feet 3 incheshigh, are umnistakably Assyrian,and must have belonged to somelarge building. (See Chesney, Eu-phrates Expedition, vol. i. pp. 114,115, whence the representation onthe next page is taken.) 248 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. Colossal liou, near Seruj perhaps more frequent on the opposite side of theTigris; at any .rate they are more striking andmore important. Bavian, Khorsabad, Shereef-Khan, Nebbi-Yunus, Koyunjik,and Nimrud, which havefurnished by far the mostvaluable and interestingof the Assyrian monu-ments, all lie east of theTigris ; while on thewest two places onlyhave yielded relics wor-thy to be compared with these, Arban and Kileh-Sherghat. It is curious that in Assyria, as in early Ohaldasa,there is a special pre-eminence of four cities. Anindication of this might seem to be contained inGenesis, where Asshur is said to have buildedNineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, andResen; ^ but on the whole it is more probable thatwe have here a mistranslation (which is correctedfor us in the margin), and that three cities only areascribed by Moses to th
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