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A cylinder-shaped stone bead that was likely found at Nineveh bears an inscription of a late Neo-Assyrian king. H. Galter has tentatively suggested that this object has a text of Sennacherib; that proposal is based on the high number of beads inscribed with texts of this Assyrian king (see text nos. 102–131). The attribution, however, is uncertain since only a few signs are preserved.
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Two fragments of a clay tablet preserve a small portion of an inscription describing a campaign of an Assyrian king against Judah. Based on the phrases used and the content, this text should be assigned to either Sargon II or Sennacherib. While there has been much discussion of this point, mainly among biblical scholars, the text cannot be attributed with certainty until more evidence is available. The text is arbitrarily edited here with inscriptions possibly belonging to Sennacherib. More information is also needed to decide whether this is a normal annalistic text or a letter to a god. The inscription is sometimes referred to as the "Azekah Inscription."
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P. Rost (Tigl. III pp. 18–21 lines 102–119) assigned this text to Tiglath-pileser III, but based on language and content the inscription probably is one of either Sargon II or Sennacherib. B. Becking (Fall of Samaria p. 54 n. 30; and 'Like a Bird in a Cage' pp. 69–70), M. Cogan (Congan and Tadmor, II Kings pp. 261–262; COS 2 p. 304 no. 2.119D; and Raging Torrent p. 107 no. 27), E. Frahm (Sanherib pp. 230–232), A. Fuchs (Khorsabad p. 314), G. Galil (SAAB 6 [1992] pp. 61–62; and Zion 57 [1992] pp. 113–119), J. Goldberg (Biblica 80 [1999] p. 363), W.M. Schniedewind (BASOR 309 [1998] p. 76 n. 7), and H. Tadmor (JCS 12 [1958] pp. 82–83; and II Kings pp. 261–262 n. 6) think that K 6205 + 82-3-23,131 is inscribed with a text of Sargon II.
Y. Aharoni (Land of the Bible2 p. 391), I. Finkelstein and N.A. Silberman (Bible Unearthed p. 260), A. Laato (VT 45 [1995] p. 214), V. Fritz (Eretz-Israel 15 [1981] p. 49*), A.M. Maeir (AOAT 392 p. 400), W. Mayer ('Like a Bird in a Cage' p. 170), N. Naʾaman (BASOR 214 [1974] pp. 28–31; and Tel Aviv 34 [2007] p. 168), A.F. Rainey and R.S. Notley (Sacred Bridge pp. 242–243), W. Shea (JBL 104 [1985] pp. 404–407 and 417), K.L. Younger Jr. (in Chavalas and Younger Jr., Mesopotamia and the Bible pp. 316–318; and in Vaughn and Killebrew, Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology pp. 238–240 and 243), and A. Zukerman and I. Shai (UF 38 [2006] pp. 745–754), however, think that the inscription belongs to Sennacherib. In addition, a number of dates for the events described in the text have been suggested: (1) 720, Sargon II's campaign against rebels in the west (Fuchs followed by Frahm); (2) 712, Sargon II's campaign to Philistia (Galil and Tadmor); (3) 701, Sennacherib's third campaign (Maeir, Naʾaman, Zukerman and Shai); and (4) after 689 (Shea, proposing that Sennacherib campaigned against Judah a second time). For further details on the attribution of the text, see Frahm, Sanherib pp. 230–232. Only a sample of the relatively extensive literature on the historical aspects of this text has been cited in the bibliography. Regardless of whether the text belongs to Sargon II or Sennacherib, the tablet was probably inscribed in the reign of Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, as suggested by the writing of Aššur's name as AN.ŠÁR. Therefore, K 6205 + 82-3-23,131 could be an archival copy. Note, however, that Aššur's name is sometimes written as AN.ŠÁR in Sargon's reign; see Hawkins, Studies Grayson p. 160 Side B line 13.
A clay tablet fragment now in the British Museum (London) is inscribed with a text of a late Neo-Assyrian king, possibly Sennacherib, that describes work on a canal, including the setting up of bull colossi and other apotropaic figures at one of its entrances. The attribution to Sennacherib, rather than some other Neo-Assyrian king (Sargon II, Esarhaddon, or Ashurbanipal) is very tentative, as already pointed out by E. Frahm. Should this inscription be part of the Sennacherib corpus, then the extant text on the obverse may describe work at Bavian; see text no. 223 for further information. Moreover, it is not entirely certain which face is the obverse and which is the reverse; the edition presented here follows Frahm's understanding of the tablet. For detailed textual commentary and a discussion of the tentative attribution of the text to Sennacherib, see Frahm, Sanherib pp. 232–236.
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A small fragment of a clay tablet contains part of an inscription of a late Neo-Assyrian king, possibly Sennacherib or his grandson Ashurbanipal. Although Sennacherib is mentioned by name in line 6', this does not prove that this text belongs to him because Sennacherib is mentioned in the inscriptions of his successors. Because the attribution to Sennacherib is uncertain, the text is edited here as a 1000-number.
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L.W. King tentatively suggested that a small flake from one side of a clay tablet contains part of an inscription of Sennacherib. E. Frahm rightly notes that there is no firm evidence to support that attribution. For this reason, the text is edited as a 1000-number.
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A small fragment of a clay tablet preserves part of an inscription of a late Neo-Assyrian king, possibly Sennacherib since it mentions the Elamite king Kudur-Nuḫundu (Kudur-Naḫḫunte). The extant text, of which the middle parts of twelve lines are preserved, could be part of an otherwise unattested account of Sennacherib's seventh campaign. Because the attribution to Sennacherib is uncertain, the text is edited here as a 1000-number.
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H. Winckler suggested that K 13826, a small, difficult to read fragment of a clay tablet, was inscribed with an inscription of Sennacherib. E. Frahm, however, has collated the piece and correctly noted that the text written on the fragment is a Neo-Assyrian legal transaction. For this reason, the text is not edited here.
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A small fragment of a clay tablet contains part of a subscript or colophon mentioning Sennacherib. Because almost nothing of the text is legible, it is not possible to determine whether this is the subscript of a Sennacherib inscription written on the clay tablet or Sennacherib is mentioned as the father (or grandfather) of the king whose inscription is written on it.
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A small fragment of a multi-column clay tablet now in the British Museum could preserve part of an inscription of Sennacherib or some other late Neo-Assyrian king. As E. Frahm has already suggested, col. i' could preserve the end of this king's third campaign and the beginning of his fourth campaign. Col. ii' preserves the report of another campaign, but it is not sufficiently preserved to accurately determine its contents. Frahm very tentatively proposes that it could contain part of the fourth campaign, a passage that is presently duplicated in inscriptions written on prisms.
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E. Frahm tentatively suggests that should Sm 2029 (text no. 29) come from a tablet, rather than a prism, then it is possible that that fragment is part of the same tablet as Sm 2017. For col. i' 1'–3', cf. text no. 22 iii 48–49; and for i' 4', cf. text no. 22 iii 50 and 53. For the possibility that col. ii' also contains part of the report of the fourth campaign, see Frahm, Sanherib pp. 238–239.
A fragment from the upper left corner of a clay tablet contains parts of the first fourteen lines of a draft or archival copy of a royal inscription of a late Neo-Assyrian king, possibly Sennacherib, his son Esarhaddon, or his grandson Ashurbanipal. Based on what is preserved (an invocation of a number of gods, beginning with Aššur), the text was likely inscribed on a stele or rock face. E. Weissert (apud Frahm, Sanherib p. 239) suggests that this is an inscription of Ashurbanipal. E. Frahm (ibid.), however, rightly notes that too little of the inscription is preserved to confirm the text's attribution. Following Frahm, the text is arbitrarily included here as a Sennacherib 1000-number.
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A small flake from a prism or tablet has an inscription of Sennacherib or another late Neo-Assyrian king. C. Bezold (Cat. 4 p. 1820) suggested that the piece could be part of a text of Sennacherib. E. Frahm (Sanherib p. 239 H.3) correctly doubts that attribution since Marduk is mentioned in line 1'; the divine name, however, could be part of a Babylonian royal or personal name. Note that [taš]-⸢me⸣-e u sa-li-[me] ("[obedi]ence and pea[ce]") in line 5' is attested in two inscriptions of Sennacherib: text no. 1 line 5 and text no. 213 line 5. Since Bezold tentatively assigned this fragment to Sennacherib, it is arbitrarily edited here as a 1000-number of Sennacherib.
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Part of an inscription of Sennacherib or some other late Neo-Assyrian king, possibly Sargon II, is found on a small flake from a tablet or prism that probably comes from Nineveh. The fragment is included here since it mentions an area being woven over with "spider webs" (qé-e et-tu-tú), an expression that is attested in two other inscriptions of Sennacherib: text no. 18 vi 28'' and text no. 223 line 7. Because the attribution to Sennacherib is uncertain, it is edited here as a 1000-number.
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A small flake from a prism or tablet is inscribed with a text of Sennacherib or one of the other late Neo-Assyrian kings, possibly Sargon II. The fragment is included here since it, like the previous text (text no. 1025), mentions an area being woven over with "spider webs" (qé-e et-tu-ti), an expression that is attested in text no. 18 vi 28'' and text no. 223 line 7. The text is edited here as a 1000-number since the attribution to Sennacherib is uncertain.
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A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny
A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny, 'Uncertain Texts, Part 2', RINAP 3: Sennacherib, The RINAP 3 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap3/rinap32textintroductions/uncertaintexts/part2/]