The Kurkh Monolith — Ahab at Qarqar, 853 BC
Ahab king of Israel was a real regional power in 853 BC, dated to the year by the Assyrian eponym canon.
Citado fora da BíbliaInscriçãoc. 852 BC
Shalmaneser III's account of the battle of Qarqar, where a coalition of twelve western kings met the Assyrian army. Among them is "Ahab the Israelite", credited with 2,000 chariots — the largest chariot force in the alliance. The Bible never mentions this battle; Assyria never mentions Ahab's dealings with Elijah. Each source knows the same king from its own side.
2,000 chariots, 10,000 soldiers of Ahab the Israelite.
- Encontrado
- Kurkh (Üçtepe), south-eastern Turkey, 1861 — John George Taylor
- Conservado em
- British Museum, London (BM 118884)
- Língua
- Akkadian
- Como chegou até nós
- Escavado, ou ainda de pé onde foi construído.
O que mostra
The identification of "Ahab the Israelite" is standard. The chariot figure is an Assyrian royal claim and, like all such numbers, may be inflated.
Como os historiadores o usam
The battle of Qarqar is a fixed anchor of Levantine chronology in secular scholarship; Ahab's date derives from it.
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