The Babylonian Chronicle on the fall of Samaria
Babylon's chronicle names Shalmaneser and the breaking of Samaria.
Nommé hors de la BibleAuteur antique6th–5th century BC copy
A one-line entry in the Babylonian Chronicle records that Shalmaneser V "broke" the city of Shamara'in — Samaria. 2 Kings has Shalmaneser besiege Samaria for three years before it falls.
He broke (destroyed) the city of Shamara'in.
- Découvert
- Babylonia — Nineteenth-century acquisitions
- Conservé à
- British Museum, London
- Langue
- Akkadian
- Comment il nous est parvenu
- Fouillé, ou encore debout là où il fut bâti.
Ce qu'elle montre
The chronicle is terse and gives no detail beyond the event. Whether Shalmaneser V or his successor Sargon II completed the capture is a long-running question in Assyriology.
Ce qu'en font les historiens
One of the sources used to reconstruct the end of the northern kingdom, alongside the Assyrian royal inscriptions.
Dans l'Écriture
Se rattache à
Sources
- Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (1975), ABC 1
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