Inscription
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Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem, 701 BCE
Two accounts of one campaign, written by the two sides, both surviving. They agree on the king, the cities, Lachish and the gold. They disagree on the silver and on how it ended — and the biblical text itself records…
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The Lachish Reliefs, Sennacherib’s palace at Nineveh
Carved wall panels from Sennacherib’s South-West Palace showing the siege and capture of the Judaean city of Lachish in 701 BCE — the attacker’s own picture of an episode the Bible also describes.
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The Taylor Prism of Sennacherib, BM 91032
Hexagonal clay prism listing the campaigns of Sennacherib, including the tribute received from Hezekiah of Judah in 701 BCE.
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The Cyrus Cylinder, BM 90920
Fired clay cylinder with a Babylonian account of the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus in 539 BCE. The external anchor for Cyrus in Isaiah 44-45.