JETS 23:1 (March 1980) p. 27 port for this connection.28 The name of Nineveh, “Fishtown,” is highly intriguing then in considering the meaning of Jonah as a sign to Nineveh, a matter to be elaborated presently. Berossus has preserved an Assyrian tradition to the effect that Assyria’s arts and sciences were brought from the Persian Gulf by a half-fish, half-man deity called in the Greek Oannes.29 A representation of this god may be detected on bas-reliefs from Kouyunjik.30 Their excavator, Austen