The Babylonian Chronicle on the fall of Samaria
Babylon's chronicle names Shalmaneser and the breaking of Samaria.
Ametajwa nje ya BibliaMwandishi wa kale6th–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.
- Kilipatikana
- Babylonia — Nineteenth-century acquisitions
- Kinahifadhiwa
- British Museum, London
- Lugha
- Akkadian
- Jinsi kilivyotufikia
- Kimefukuliwa, au bado kimesimama pale kilipojengwa.
Kinachoonyesha
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.
Jinsi wanahistoria wanavyokitumia
One of the sources used to reconstruct the end of the northern kingdom, alongside the Assyrian royal inscriptions.
Katika Maandiko
Kinahusiana na
Vyanzo
- Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (1975), ABC 1
Kwa sasa maelezo haya yapo kwa Kiingereza. Tafsiri zitafuata.