Sargon II on Samaria: 27,290 taken away
The deportation of the northern kingdom and the resettlement of foreigners in Samaria are both recorded by the king who carried them out.
Außerbiblisch genanntInschriftc. 710 BC
Sargon II's annals, and a better-preserved prism from Nimrud, record the taking of Samaria and the deportation of 27,290 of its people, with fifty chariots kept for the royal corps and new settlers brought in.
I besieged and conquered Samaria, led away as booty 27,290 inhabitants of it… I settled therein people from countries which I myself had conquered.
- Gefunden
- Khorsabad and Nimrud, Iraq, 1843 — Paul-Émile Botta (Khorsabad); later excavations at Nimrud
- Heute in
- Musée du Louvre, Paris; British Museum, London; Iraq Museum, Baghdad
- Sprache
- Akkadian
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
Assyrian royal figures are royal claims. Whether Sargon or Shalmaneser V took the city, and the exact year, remain debated.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
Standard primary source for the end of the kingdom of Israel and for Assyrian deportation policy.
In der Schrift
Verbunden mit
Quellen
- Nimrud Prism, 720 BCE — text and translation
- Becking, The Fall of Samaria: An Historical and Archaeological Study (1992)
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