History
Sennacherib
The Assyrian king who made Nineveh his capital around 705 BCE and rebuilt it on a scale the region had not seen.
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- Standing:
- A real person. Objects, inscriptions or archives made in their own lifetime carry their name.
- Reigned:
- 705 to 681 BCE
- City:
- Nineveh
- Period:
- The Neo-Assyrian empire · c. 911 to 609 BCE
What they did
built the palace he called the Palace Without Rival; walled the city and set colossal lamassu at its gates; ran an aqueduct from the hills to Nineveh, whose stone channel at Jerwan still stands.
Sources
The references this entry is drawn from. ETCSL is the scholarly edition for the Sumerian texts; the rest are general references for the archaeology and the dates.
In the same period
Others our chronology places in The Neo-Assyrian empire.
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