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I was just reviewing my pictures from the visit and I found this and transcribed it:

A SIEGE REMEMBERED BY MANY
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This six-sided clay prism was written on behalf of Sennacherib, king of Assyria (704-681 B.C.). It contains the narratives of eight of Sennacherib's military campaigns. He recounts in detail the manner in which he defeated most of the major Near Eastern powers, including large coalitions of Babylonians, Chaldeans, and Elamites. During his third campaign, Sennacherib travelled to the West, attacked the Israelite king Hezekiah, and laid seige to Jerusalem. On this prism, Sennacherib boasts of complete victory over Hezekiah. However, the story of this siege is also told in the Old Testament and, perhaps, by Herodotus, the Greek historian. Both those sources claim that Sennacherib retreated from the walls of the city after his forces succumbed to a plague.
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THE STORY ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS
Book II. 141.
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"...that night a multitude of fieldmice swarmed over the Assyrian camp and devoured their quivers and their bows and the handles of their shilds likewise, insomuch that they fled the next day unarmed and many fell."
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THE STORY ACCORDING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
II Kings 19:35-37
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"And that night an angel of the lord went forth, slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the man arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home, and dwelt at Nineveh."
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THE STORY ACCORDING TO THE SENNACHERIB PRISM
From A 2793, col iii 18-41
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"As for Hezekiah, the Judean, who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of his strong, fortified cities, as well as the small cities in their vicinity, which were without number-I besieged and conquered... Himself, like a caged bird I shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city...the terrifying splendor of my majesty over came him, and he sent rich tribute to me in Nineveh."
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THE TRUTH SHALL SET YE FREE!



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