This is the longest and most useful of the Babylonian chronicles for the Assyrian period. It runs from the mid-eighth century into the seventh, recording accessions, campaigns and outcomes in the same flat administrative register as the rest of the series.
Why it matters here
Its entry for the reign of Shalmaneser V records that he ravaged Samaria. That is a third voice in an argument that would otherwise have only two: 2 Kings, which attributes the capture to the Assyrian king reigning at the time, and the inscriptions of Sargon II, who claims the conquest of Samaria as his own achievement.
A Babylonian chronicle has no stake in which Assyrian king took the credit, which is exactly what makes its entry worth having.
What it is not
It is brief, it is damaged in places, and it gives no detail about the siege, the deportation or the administration that followed. It settles a question of attribution and nothing else.
How it is cited here
By CDLI P-number, which resolves to the artefact record and returns the museum number. The standard critical edition is Grayson’s Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles, where it is Chronicle 1.