Black Obelisk, Shalmaneser III c. 854-824 B.C.

The tribute of Jehu (Ia-u-a), son of Omri (Hu-um-ri); I received from him silver, gold, a golden saplu-bowl, a golden vase with pointed bottom, golden tumblers, golden buckets, tin, a staff for a king, (and) wooden puruhtu.

Discovered at Kalah (biblical Calah) in the mid-1800's by Austen Henry Layard.

Pritchard, J.B., editor; Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. p. 281
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