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Sennacherib in Cilicia (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Royal inscriptions 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.11 Historiography 05.11.01 Royal inscriptions	Keywords Berossus Cilicia Sennacherib
Period 3rd century BCE Hellenistic Empires	Channel Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F7:
When he learned that Greeks had invaded the land of the Cilicians, he hastened against them, faced them, and after many of his own troops had been cut down by his enemies, gained the victory in the battle. As a memorial of his victory he left a statue of himself on the battlefield and ordered that an account of his courage and heroic deed be inscribed in Chaldean script for future times. And Senecherib built the city Tarson after the model of Babylon, and he gave it the name Tharsin.

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F7

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 24

Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.

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