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Also Known As Sin-akhkheeriba • Sin-ahhe-eriba
Died January 681 BCE • Nineveh • Iraq
Title / Office king (705BC-681BC), Assyria

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Bas-relief depicting the founding Assyrian king of Nineveh, Sennacherib
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