504TH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
MONDAY, MARCH 7tu, 1910. 
THE Rey. J. TUCKWELL, M.R.A.S., IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 
The announcement was then made of the impending election to fill eight 
vacancies on the Council, to take place on May 2nd. 
The following paper was then read by the author :— 
(Illustrated by Lantern Slides.) 
ASSUR AND NINEVEH. 
By THeEopuiuus G. Pincues, LL.D., M.R.A.S. 
Assur. 
()" all the little explanatory verses on the Old Testament 
there are probably but few which are of greater imterest. 
than that referring to the great cities of Assyria. It is that 
well-known verse 11 of the 10th chapter of Genesis, which, in 
the Revised Version, tells us that, “out of that land (Shinar or 
Babylonia) he (Nimrod, who is best identified with the 
Babylonian god Merodach) went forth into Assyria, and builded 
Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah, and Resen between 
Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).” Whether it 
was Asshur or Nimrod who went forth from Babylonia or not is 
a matter of but minor importance, as it is the cities which were 
founded, and not the person who founded them, with which we 
have to deal. 
A very important testimony to the great size of Nineveh is 
given in the Book of Jonah, where it is spoken of, in verse 2 of 
the third chapter, as “ that great city,” and further, in the third 
verse of the same chapter, as “an exceeding great city, of three 
days’ journey,” the distance referred to being commonly regarded 
as indicating its extent. Naturally, there is some difficulty in 
