SENNACHERIB

Akkadian Sin-akhkheeriba died January 681 BC, Nineveh [now in Iraq] king of Assyria (705/704681 BC), son of Sargon II. He made Nineveh his capital, building a new palace, extending and beautifying the city, and erecting inner and outer city walls that still stand. Sennacherib figures prominently in the Old Testament. Additional reading D.D. Luckenbill (trans.), The Annals of Sennacherib (1924), edits all relevant texts then known. This is supplemented by a bibliography and an interesting new text by A.K. Grayson, The Walters Art Gallery Sennacherib Inscription, Archiv fr Orientforschung, 20:8396 (1963). T. Jacobsen and Seton Lloyd, Sennacherib's Aqueduct at Jerwan (1935), offers the definitive account of that structure. H.W.F. Saggs, The Greatness That Was Babylon (1962), pp. 118222, gives a general account of Sennacherib.