New sources for sennacherib's first campaign

Abstract

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