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.
Nombrado fuera de la BibliaInscripciónc. 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.
- Hallado
- Khorsabad and Nimrud, Iraq, 1843 — Paul-Émile Botta (Khorsabad); later excavations at Nimrud
- Se conserva en
- Musée du Louvre, Paris; British Museum, London; Iraq Museum, Baghdad
- Lengua
- Akkadian
- Cómo llegó hasta nosotros
- Excavado, o todavía en pie donde se construyó.
Qué muestra
Assyrian royal figures are royal claims. Whether Sargon or Shalmaneser V took the city, and the exact year, remain debated.
Cómo lo usan los historiadores
Standard primary source for the end of the kingdom of Israel and for Assyrian deportation policy.
En la Escritura
Se relaciona con
Fuentes
- Nimrud Prism, 720 BCE — text and translation
- Becking, The Fall of Samaria: An Historical and Archaeological Study (1992)
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