Padi (King)

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Padi was a king of Ekron at the end of the 8th century BC.

In the account of his third campaign (702/701 BC) the Assyrian king Sennacherib describes how the city leaders and residents of Ekron surrendered their king, who was a vassal of Sennacherib, to Hezekiah of Judah . Like King Zidqa of Ashkelon, he had not submitted to the Assyrians and was now also the victim of a punitive action. As a result of the third campaign, Padi of Sennacherib was reinstated as King of Ekron, but was paid a tribute. In return , Padi, like the kings Mitinti of Ashdod and Zilbel of Gaza , received parts of the kingdom of Judah, which was now limited to the urban area of Jerusalem and its immediate surroundings. For the year 699 BC Padi is named as the sender of a delivery of silver.

No further information is known about the fate of Padi.

A building inscription from Ekron found in 1996 names Achisch , son of Padi, as the ruler of Ekron.

literature

  • C. Ambos; HD Baker: Padi. In: HD Baker (ed.): The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire 3: I. , Helsinki 2002, p. 978.
personal data
SURNAME Padi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Ekron
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 699 BC Chr.