Esarhaddon on his father's murder
The murder of Sennacherib by his own sons, and Esarhaddon's succession, are recorded by Esarhaddon himself.
Außerbiblisch genanntInschriftc. 670 BC
Esarhaddon's account of how he came to the throne describes his brothers turning on their father and killing him, and Esarhaddon marching on Nineveh to take the crown. 2 Kings ends Sennacherib's story with his murder by his sons while worshipping, and the succession of Esarhaddon.
They butted each other like kids to take over the kingship… an evil demon stood behind them.
- Gefunden
- Nineveh, Iraq — Nineteenth-century excavations
- Heute in
- British Museum, London
- Sprache
- Akkadian
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
Esarhaddon does not name the killers in the way 2 Kings does, and the identification of the individual sons is debated. Both accounts agree on the killing and the successor.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
A well-known case of an Assyrian royal text and a biblical text describing the same palace murder.
In der Schrift
Verbunden mit
Quellen
- Leichty, The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon (RINAP 4, 2011)
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