Sennacheryb, właśc. Sin-ahhe-eriba – władca Asyrii z dynastii Sargonidów, syn Sargona II; panował w latach 704-681 p.n.e. 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