The Trail of Sennacherib’s Siege Camps
Images of military conquest on Sennacherib’s palace walls often featured his siege camps. By comparing the visual and textual references to these camps with the surroundings of the cities he besieged (on site and via aerial and satellite imagery, archaeological and historical data, and early maps an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2024
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2024, Volume: 87, Issue: 2, Pages: 110-120 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sennacherib Assyria, King 745 BC-680 BC
/ Destruction of war
/ Toponymy
/ Libna
/ Nob
/ Relief map
/ Conquest
/ City
/ Tent
/ Palace
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| RelBib Classification: | TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
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| Summary: | Images of military conquest on Sennacherib’s palace walls often featured his siege camps. By comparing the visual and textual references to these camps with the surroundings of the cities he besieged (on site and via aerial and satellite imagery, archaeological and historical data, and early maps and surveys), likely locations are proposed for Sennacherib’s royal camps. These sites are found to have all had the same name on early maps, Mudawwara, which, in Arabic in the Middle Ages, denoted the enormous tent that housed the sultan on military expeditions. (At times, this name was prefaced with Khirbet al, indicating the ancient stone ruins thereof.) Examining all occurrences of this toponym within Judah and Philistia reveals a distribution consistent with what is known of Sennacherib’s invasion route and of the cities besieged. It also resolves some long-standing questions and contributes to identifying the locations of the cities of Libnah and Nob. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/729873 |