The name he took, Shalmaneser V, cost him five forgotten years
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The name he took, Shalmaneser V, cost him five forgotten years
In this episode, we follow the career and disappearance of the Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser V, tracing his rise from prince Ululayu to emperor who campaigned from Anatolia to Phoenicia and laid siege to Samaria. We explore the sparse records and deliberate silences that surround his five-year reign and ask what forces erased his legacy.
Person: Shalmaneser V (born Ululayu)
Date: died on the 12th day of Tebeth, 722 BCE
Location: besieged the capital of the Kingdom of Israel, Samaria
Event: three-year siege of Samaria beginning c. 725 BCE
Source: Babylonian Chronicle and Eponym Chronicle entries
- Son of Tiglath-Pileser III, addressed his father in surviving letters from Nimrud as "your servant Ululayu"
- Took the throne name Salmānu-ašarēd to invoke past western conquerors and signal continued campaigns
- Commanded campaigns from the mountains of Anatolia to the Phoenician coast while ruling Assyria and Babylon simultaneously
- The Eponym Chronicle records "Toward Samaria" across three consecutive years, indicating a protracted siege
- Almost no commemorative inscriptions, monuments, or steles bear his name; only a few scattered artifacts survive
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