New sources for sennacherib's "first campaign"

• Autores: Eckart Frahm
• Localización: Isimu: Revista sobre Oriente Próximo y Egipto en la antigüedad, ISSN 1575-3492, Nº. 6, 2003, págs. 129-164
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The article presents an edition, based on manuscripts from Nineveh, Ashur, and Tarbisu, of Sennacherib's earliest accounts of its first campaign, waged against Marduk-aplu-iddina and his southern Babylonian allies in 704-702 BCE. It provides an overview of the Aramaean tribes and Chaldaean towns attacked by the Assyrian troops, and a discussion of may have been the author of the inscriptions hat celebrate the campaign.