Abstract This study reexamines a lynchpin of Neo-Babylonian Levantine Phoenician historiography: Nebuchadnezzar II’s purported thirteen-year siege Tyre in the early sixth century bce . detail about length can be found only Josephus’ (first ce ) writings, but this study’s new assessment (sixth-fifteenth manuscript evidence shows that more commonly transmitted was “three years and ten months.” Ot...