The Babylonian Chronicle on the fall of Samaria
Babylon's chronicle names Shalmaneser and the breaking of Samaria.
Lave'i 'i tu'a mei he Tohi TapuTohi tangata motu'a6th–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.
- Na'e 'ilo'i
- Babylonia — Nineteenth-century acquisitions
- 'Oku tauhi 'i
- British Museum, London
- Lea
- Akkadian
- Na'e a'u mai fēfē kiate kitautolu
- Na'e keli hake, pe 'oku kei tu'u 'i he potu na'e langa ai.
Ko e me'a 'oku ne fakahā
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.
Founga hono ngāue'aki 'e he kau hisitōlia
One of the sources used to reconstruct the end of the northern kingdom, alongside the Assyrian royal inscriptions.
'I he Folofola
Fekau'aki mo
Ngaahi ma'u'anga fakamatala
- Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (1975), ABC 1
'Oku 'i he lea faka-Pilitānia 'a e ngaahi fakamatala ko 'eni he taimi ni. 'E muimui mai 'a e liliu.