“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold”
Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib
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Sinacherib, taktéž Sancheríb , byl asyrský král, který vládl v letech 704–681 př. n. l. Byl synem a následníkem Sargona II. Jeho následovníkem byl jeho syn Asarhaddon. Kromě něj měl se svými manželkami Tašmetum-šarat a Zakutu potomky Arda-Mullissi, Arad-bel-it, Nabu-šar-usur. Wikipedia

“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold”
Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib
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“(Hezekiah) himself, like a caged bird, I shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city.”
From the Taylor prism http://www.kchanson.com/ANCDOCS/meso/sennprism3.html