1 dez 712 ano antes da era comum - Stele of Tang-i Var

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DATING THE SENNACHERIB'S CAMPAIGN TO JUDAH by Gerard Gertoux

The inscription of Sargon II, found at Tang-i Var, requires to date this campaign in 712 BCE and not in 702/701. One reads along the lines 16-27:

16) I dispersed the army of the Elamite #umbaniga! (#umba-nika!) (in 717 BCE). I destroyed the land of K[aral]la, the land
of "urda, the city of Ki[!es]im, the city of#ar"ar, [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 [Mu!a!i]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]"i, (and) the land of
Kammanu; over their lands [...] I se[t] officials.
19) I plundered the city of Ashdod ( ). Iamani, its king, feared [my weapons] and ... He fled to the region of the land ofMelu""a (Nubia) and lived (there) stealthfully (literally: like a thief).
20) "apataku’ (Shabataka), king of the land of Melu""a, heard of the mig[ht] of the gods A!!ur, Nabu, (and) Marduk which I had [demonstrated] over all lands, ...
21) He put (Iamani) in manacles and handcuffs ... he had him brought captive into my presence.22) [I depopulated] all the lands of Tabâlu, Kasku, (and) #ilakku; 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 Rapi"u (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) A"undari, king of Dilmun, 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].

This inscription, written in chronological order, 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 begun in 714 BCE.

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

...the capture of Ashdod by Sargon (712 BCE) in the stele of Tang-i Var...

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