The salting was probably modeled on the story of Shechem.
This may have been part of a ḥērem ritual (see Salt in the Bible).Īt least as early as 1863, various texts claimed that the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus plowed over and sowed the city of Carthage with salt after defeating it in the Third Punic War (146 BC), sacking it, and enslaving the survivors. 1050 BC, after quelling a revolt against him. The Book of Judges (9:45) says that Abimelech, the judge of the Israelites, sowed his own capital, Shechem, with salt, c. Various Hittite and Assyrian texts speak of ceremonially strewing salt, minerals, or plants ( weeds, "cress", or kudimmu, which are associated with salt and desolation ) over destroyed cities, including Hattusa, Taidu, Arinna, Hunusa, Irridu, and Susa. The custom of purifying or consecrating a destroyed city with salt and cursing anyone who dared to rebuild it was widespread in the ancient Near East, but historical accounts are unclear as to what the sowing of salt meant in that process.
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