jan 1, 673 BC - Esarhaddon Prism

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Describes the history of King Esarhaddon’s reign and an account of the reconstruction of the Assyrian palace in Babylon.

Contains the first extra-biblical reference to Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, who contributed to Esarhaddon's invasion force against Egypt.

https://www.livius.org/sources/content/anet/291-esarhaddons-prism-b/
I called up the kings of the country Hatti and (of the region) on the other side of the river Euphrates: Ba'al, king of Tyre; Manasseh, king of Judah; ... Together twenty-two kings of Hatti, the seashore, and the islands. All these I sent out and made them transport under terrible difficulties, to Nineveh, the town of my rulership, as building material for my palace: big logs, long beams and thin boards from cedar and pine trees, products of the Sirara and Lebanon mountains, which had grown for a long time into tall and strong timber, also from their quarries in the mountains...

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