Some scholars, as Hommel (_Gesch.

d.
alt.

Morgenlandes_, p.

68), propose to identify this place with the Assyrian Nineveh, but the conjecture lacks proof and is altogether improbable.
[72] _Old Babylonian Inscriptions_, I.pls.30, 31.

(See now Peiser, _Keils Bibl._ 4, pp.