CANDIDATE RECORD — NOT YET VERIFIED. Drafted from the British Museum collection entry; confirm in the repository before publication.
A hexagonal clay prism, a foundation record listing the campaigns of Sennacherib up to the start of his final war against Babylon. It includes an account of the tribute received from Hezekiah, king of Judah, in 701 BCE, and is therefore one of the very few places where an Assyrian royal record and a biblical narrative describe the same episode.
What to check in the archive
- Registration 1855,1003.1 and BM number 91032 resolve to this object.
- Production date 691 BCE, Neo-Assyrian; findspot Nebi Yunus.
- The column and line numbers of the Hezekiah passage — that is the locus the dossier will cite, not the prism as a whole.
This is the dossier where the two sources contradict each other in the most instructive way, and where the case against practically writes itself: the Assyrian record and 2 Kings agree that tribute was paid and disagree about how the siege ended. Neither account is disinterested. That is the page, not an obstacle to it.