1 set 712 ano antes da era comum - Stele of Kawa

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DAVID AND SOLOMON'S KINGDOMS: LEGEND OR HISTORY? by Gerard Gertoux

According to a stele of Kawa, Taharqa was 20 at the Battle of Eltekeh (in 712 BCE), which places his birth in 732 BCE, or 2 years before the death of Piye his father, who ruled at least 30 years. Taharqa's lifetime of 69 years corresponds to a death of old aged.

...the 1st year of reign of his successor coincided with the Battle of Eltekeh, according to the Kawa stelae...

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ASSYRIAN AND BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGIES ARE THEY RELIABLE? by Gerard Gertoux

According to the two stelae of Kawa22, after the death of Shabaka, his successor Shabataka immediately summoned an army which he placed under the command of his brother Taharqa, a young son of Piye age 20 to repel an Assyrian attack which wasthreatening. In addition, Taharqa states explicitly on these stelae that he was designated as heir by Shabataka despite his other brothers and all children. The campaign of Sennacherib thus corresponds to the 1st year of Shabataka, which is anchored on Sennacherib's 3rd campaign. Usual dating in 702/701 BCE leads to several contradictions23. The inscription of Sargon II, found at Tang-i Var, requires to date this campaign in 712 BCE and not in 702/701. One reads24 along the lines 16-27:
16) I dispersed the army of the Elamite Ḫumbanigaš (Ḫumba-nikaš) (in 717 BCE). I destroyed the land of K[aral]la, the land of Šurda, the city of Ki[šes]im, the city of Ḫarḫar, [the Me]dian [land], (and) the land of Elli[pi (...)].
17) I laid waste to the land of Urartu (in 714 BCE), plundered the city of [Muṣaṣi]r (and) the Mannean land, crushed the land[s]..
18) I conquered the rulers of the land of Amattu (Hamath), the city of Carche[mish, the city of Kummu]ḫi, (and) the land of Kammanu; over their lands [...] I se[t] officials.
22) [I depopulated] all the lands of Tabâlu, Kasku, (and) Ḫilakku; I took away settlements belonging to Metâ (Midas), king of the land of [Mu]sku, and reduced (the size of) his land.
23) At the city of Rapiḫu (Raphia) I defeated the vanguard of the army of Egypt and counted as booty the king of the city of Hâzutu (Gaza) who had not submitted to my [yo]ke.
24) I subdued 7 kings of the land of Iâ’, a region of the l[and of] Iadnâna (Cyprus) — whose home is situated at a distance of... [in the mid]dle of the Western Sea.
25) Moreover, (in 710 BCE) I personally (literally: my great hands) defeated Marduk-apla-iddina (Merodach- Baladan II), king of the land of Chaldea, who dwelled on the shore of the sea (and) who ex[erc]ised kingship over Babylon against the wi[ll of the gods].
26) Moreover, all the land of Bît-Iakîn ... I fixed ...
27) Aḫundari, king of Dilmun [Upêri in the Annals], whose lair [is situated] at a distance of... leagues [in the
middle] of the sea like that of a fish, heard of my [royal] mig[ht] and brought me (in 709 BCE) [his] gre[eting
gift].
28) With the power and strength (granted me) by the great gods, (my) lords], who [raised up mu weapons, I cut]
down al[l my enemies].
29) From the land of Iadnâna (Cyprus), which is (situated) in the middle of the [Western] Sea, [as far as the
border(s) of Egypt (and) the land of M]usk[u, the wide land of Amurru], the land of Ḫ[atti (in its entirety)],
This inscription, written in chronological order25, situates the battle against Egypt during the taking of Ashdod in 712 BCE, confirming the coincidence between the 3rd campaign of Sennacherib and Sargon's 10th campaign. The two Assyrian kings had to campaign in common, but Sennacherib had to make engraved his 3rd campaign only when he was king, after the death of his father, and not during his co-regency which began in 714 BCE.

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