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A text, though probably written after Sennacherib's death, says he proclaimed he was investigating the nature of a "sin" committed by his father. [34] A minor 704 BC [35] campaign (unmentioned in Sennacherib's later historical accounts), led by Sennacherib's magnates rather than the king himself, was sent against Gurdî in Tabal to avenge ...
Sennacherib's Prism. Sennacherib's Prism, which details the events of Sennacherib's campaign against Judah, was discovered in the ruins of Nineveh in 1830, and is now stored at the Oriental Institute in Chicago, Illinois. [2] The Prism dates from about 690 BC, and its account is taken from an earlier cuneiform inscription dating to 700 BC. [6]
After the death of Sargon II, Sennacherib’s father, a number of states in the Levant renounced their allegiance to Assyria. The rebellion involved several small states: Sidon and Ashkelon (which were taken by force) and Byblos , Ashdod , Ammon , Moab , and Edom who then submitted to the payment of tribute to Assyria .
"The Destruction of Sennacherib" [2] is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1815 in his Hebrew Melodies (in which it was titled The Destruction of Semnacherib). [3] The poem is based on the biblical account of the historical Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC by Assyrian king Sennacherib , as described in 2 Kings 18–19, Isaiah 36–37.
The prophecy of Isaiah, the number of the Assyrians killed and the names of Sennacherib's sons were not recorded in the Chronicles. [13] The text simply states that the whole Assyrian army was annihilated, so Sennacherib had to return with 'shame of face' (cf. Ezra 9:7; Psalm 44:16) to his land, where his sons slew him in the temple. [21]
Sennacherib's Annals are the annals of Sennacherib, emperor of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.They are found inscribed on several artifacts, and the final versions were found in three clay prisms inscribed with the same text: the Taylor Prism is in the British Museum, the ISAC or Chicago Prism in the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and the Jerusalem Prism is in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
It is possible that she was already dead by that point, since no documents from Esarhaddon's reign mention her. A clay docket from Nineveh, dated to about one month prior to Sennacherib's death in 681 BC, bears the impression of a seal owned by an Assyrian queen, indicating that there was a queen at the time of Sennacherib's death.
The king's casus belli for this invasion was the king of Shupria's refusal to hand over political refugees from Assyria (possibly some of the conspirators behind Sennacherib's death) and though the Shuprian king had agreed to give up the refugees after a long series of letters, Esarhaddon considered it took him too long to relent. The Assyrians ...