Commonly represented as queen of Nineveh. Rather the Zab country, E. of the Tigris, watered by the upper and lower rivers, Zab Ala and Zab Asfal. A-diab-ene, the best part of Assyria representing the who1e. The "Zab" is named in the inscription of Tiglath Pileser I in the 12th century B.C. (Nahum 2:7). Gesenius connects it with Nahum 2:6, "the palace shall be dissolved, and shall flow away" (Henderson) "... though firmly established" (see margin).