New sources for Sennacherib’s first campaign

“The article presents an edition, based on manuscripts from Nineveh, Ashur, and Tarbisu, of Sennacherib’s earliest accounts of its first campaign, waged against Marduk-aplu-iddina and his southern Babylonian allies in 704-702 BCE. It provides an overview of the Aramean tribes and Chaldean towns attacked by the Assyrian troops, and a discussion of many have been the author of the inscriptions hat celebrate the campaign.”

Frahm, E. (2016) «New sources for Sennacherib’s first campaign», ISIMU, 6, pp. 129–164. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.15366/isimu2003.6.008.

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