# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sennacherib
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:39:52.973Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sennacherib"
name: "Sennacherib"
slug: "sennacherib"
description: "King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 705 to 681 BC, he destroyed Babylon after it cost him his eldest son, besieged Jerusalem in a campaign the Hebrew Bible memorializes, and was stabbed to death by two of his own sons in a succession dispute."
tagline: "King of Assyria"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sennacherib.jpg"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "-745"
deathDate: "-681"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     6.785714285714286
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Sennacherib inherited the throne in 705 BC as the second king of the Sargonid dynasty and immediately faced rebellion: the Chaldean chief Marduk-apla-iddina II retook Babylon and allied with Elam. He reclaimed the south by 700 BC, but the troubles spread—probably at Marduk-apla-iddina's instigation—to the Levant, where in 701 BC he invaded Judah and besieged Jerusalem under King Hezekiah, who eventually submitted though the siege itself remained inconclusive. When Babylonians and Elamites captured and executed his eldest son and designated heir Aššur-nādin-šumi, whom he'd installed as vassal king in Babylon, Sennacherib razed the city in 689 BC. He transferred the capital to Nineveh and transformed it with massive walls, temples, a royal garden, and the Southwest Palace—his "Palace without Rival." He named his second son Arda-Mulissu as new heir, then replaced him with the younger Esarhaddon in 684 BC for reasons unrecorded. In 681 BC, Arda-Mulissu and his brother Nabu-shar-usur murdered him; Esarhaddon raised an army, took Nineveh, and claimed the throne as Sennacherib had intended.