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Year 7. The month Kislev. The king of Akkad mobilized his troops and marched to Hatti.
He encamped against the city of Judah and in the month Adar, day 2, he captured the city; he seized the king. He…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
Date:
598–597 BCE
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I besieged and captured Samaria. I took as spoil 27,290 people who live there; I organized (a contingent of) fifty of their chariots and I instructed the rest of them in correct conduct. I appointed…
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Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)
Date:
722–705 BCE
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The Samarians, who had come to an agreement with a [hostile (?)] king not to do service or to render tribute to me, did battle. In the strength of the great gods, my lords, I fought with them; I…
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Calah, Assyria (Nimrud, Iraq)
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722–705 BCE
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As for Hezekiah, the Judean, I besieged 46 of his fortified walled cities and surrounding smaller towns, which were without number. Using packed-down ramps and applying battering rams, infantry…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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701–681 BCE
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These are the slaves, the share in the paternal estate that Nir-Yama and Yahu-azza, sons of Ahikam, and Hagga, Yahu-izri, and Yahushu, sons of Ahikam, divided among themselves:
The slave woman Nana…
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Babylon, Babylonia (Babylon, Iraq)
Date:
506 BCE