NINGPO 



5748 



NIOBl 



Chipped in a tempi.- repaired by 



II. inin M! 1,'llHl !..(., she 



iili-ni iiied \\ith Ishtar. A 



Mltamiian i|ii|iiiiiatiii. almiit 1400, 



preceded the outl>m-t of A 



eoMipiest. under ShalnianeHcr I, 



alioiit 13<X) ; lie restored the 



ii-ni|.|.- alili.Mi.-li making Calah 



it.il It was made a royal 



" by Ashurbelkala, about 



MINI ii.r. 



its i-liirf renoun 



.'tacherib ('2 Kings 19), who 



! .1 majestic piiluec at Kiniin- 



jik inn! mi arsenal at N'el>i N mm-. 



it ii.i'.d t .mill of I In- |iin|iln-l 

 loiiali. 1'ii-iili-i .-anali-iiiL' the 

 city. In- laiil out a park wherein he 

 ar.-lim n isnl exotic animals and 

 plants. inrluiliiiL! the Arabian 

 cotton. K.-arhaddon widened the 

 and built a palace at Nebi 

 Yunns. In A<!mi hanipal's palace, 

 N. of Sennacherib s, Raasam 

 found, 1854. an immense cunei- 

 form Horary, now in the British 

 Museum. The fall of the city, fore- 

 told by Xahum and Zcphaniah, 

 was achieved by the Median Cyax- 

 ares and the Babylonian Nabo- 

 polassar, 606. Its memory was 

 already effaced when Xenophon 

 traversed its ruins, 401 B.C., and a 

 Sassanian village grew upon the 

 mounds. See Babylonia; Kuyunjik ; 

 Mesopotamia; consult also The 

 Palaces of Nineveh and Perse- 

 poUs Restored, J. Fergusson, 1851 ; 

 Discoveries in the Ruins of 

 Nineveh and Babylon, Austen H. 

 Lavard, 1853. 



Ningpo. City in Che kiangprov., 

 China. It is situated at the junc- 

 tion of the two branches of the 

 river Viinu. 12 m. from the mouth. 

 Ningpo is 1 ,200 years old ; the site 

 of old Ningpo, which is said to 

 have existed 2205 B.C., is at some 



li m the present 



I the u i!U, limit about 

 H70, in 5 in r..MiiL'iiM trader* 

 visited .'. I. ut were 



e\|M-|li-.| in I 



PI. .1 l.y il..- I'.nii-h, IM1, and 

 declared a treaty p> 



of \ inking in 181 

 Hud li .1, n! ,'.- WM eatablUhcd 

 here in Dec., 1843, and s ciutonu 

 .-t .iii. MI opened in 1801. Pop. 

 466,01 HI 



Ninian >u NIMAS (d. c. 432). 

 r.u'i-h In. hop and Haint. A native 

 of N. Wales, he was educat. ! m 

 i:..n,., and being consecrated 

 bishop, built what is said to have 

 been the first stone church in 

 Britain at \\ hithorn, or Candida 

 i ' ..illoway, and dedicated it 

 to 8. Martin of Tours. A mission- 

 ary among the Southern Picts, he 

 is credited with maintaining the 

 Catholic faith against the teaching 

 of IVlagius. His festival is Sept. 16. 



Ninib. Babylonian and Assy- 

 rian deity. Appropriating the at- 

 tributes of Ningirsu of Lagash and 

 other vegetation gods, he was, as 



-on of Knlil (Bel), deemed to re- 

 present the beneficent vernal son. 

 In contradistinction to Nergal. 



invoked him as the god of bttle. 



Ninnic Glacier. loe field on 

 the coiwt of King George V Land, 

 t ieu. It in aixjut fiO m. E. of 

 the similar but smaller MerU 

 glacier. It was discovered by the 

 Mawson Kxpcdition (1911-14) and 

 named after Lieut. Edward N 

 a iin-iii IMT of the expedition who 

 met his death there. 



Ninth. Musical interval, a 

 -mitone or a tone greater than an 

 octave. In harmony the chord of 



Major Hlntb 



I. 



Ningpo, China. 



One of the main riverside streets ol 

 the city 



the ninth is recognized as one of 

 the fundamental discords, obtained 

 by adding another third to a chord 

 of the seventh. The ninth usually 

 resolves upon the octave, as above. 

 See Discord ; Inter- 

 val; Harmony; Re- 

 solution ; Seventh. 

 Niobe. In 

 Greek mythology, 

 the wife of Am- 

 phion, king of 

 Thebes, by whom 

 she had twelve 

 children. She was 

 so proud of this 

 that she mocked 

 the goddess Leto 

 or Latona, who 

 had only given 

 birth to two 

 children, where- 

 upon the offended 

 goddess incited 



Nineveh. Reconstruction of the palaces 

 tower on the left represents the sup 



from Lagmrt'i JJoi 



on the banks of the Tigris, from plans of the existing remains. The treat 

 osed tomb of Sardanapalui ; on the right is the palace ot Esarhaddon 



imtnli of Xixntk (Z*4 itrttfi. ty tomrltif of Jolt* tlurrmg 



