account of the third campaign. The campaigns of Sennacherib are usually studied in the more complete texts (with all eight known campaigns) of the Chicago and Taylor prisms (Luckenbill 1924: 23–47; Borger 1979: Heft 1, 68–87). The Chicago Prism was inscribed in the eponymy of Gaḫilu/Giḫilu (689 BCE). The Taylor Prism was written two years earlier, in the eponymy of Bēl-ēmuranni (691 BCE). It is those combined texts that will be cited in the ensuing discussions. The principal citations are from
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