Fall of Ashdod

Fall of Ashdod
Part of the Wars of Neo-Assyria

Psamtik I enters Ashdod
Datec. 655 BC
Location
Ashdod, Neo-Assyrian Empire (Southern Levant
Result Egyptian victory.[1][2]
Belligerents
Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt Neo-Assyrian empire
Commanders and leaders
Psamtik I Unknown
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown

The Fall of Ashdod was the successful Egyptian assault on the city of Ashdod, one of the five cities of the famed Philistine pentapolis, located in southwestern Canaan, about 655 BC.[3] According to the Greek historian Herodotus, pharaoh Psamtik I, besieged Ashdod for 29 years. Ashdod had lost most of its inhabitants during those long years of siege.[4]

  1. ^ "Psammetichus ruled Egypt for fifty-three years, twenty-nine of which he spent before Azotus, a great city in Syria, besieging it until he took it."Herodotus, The Histories [1], (II, 157)
  2. ^ "the Egyptian pharaoh Psammetichus i conquered the city after a siege of 29 years""Ashdod". encyclopedia.com.
  3. ^ "In 655 BCE Psamtik I marched into Philistia""The Late period (664–332 BCE)".
  4. ^ Herodotus, (II, 157)