form us that Uba was actually the ishakku of Elam.[1] No more is heard of the kings of Awan, though Elamite antiquaries named Helu as the successor to Hishep-ratep. Perhaps he was active in Anshan and Shirihum, the mountains north and northeast of Elam, where the Assyrians were to find the land Parsumash and into which the Iranian Chishpish or Teispes entered about 675 b.c. For Manishtusu divided his troops and sent one army into this region; successful, his warriors brought the defeated king back to Babylonia and led him in triumph before Shamash in Sippar. The other army crossed the Persian Gulf to the Persian coast, where it defeated the warriors from thirty-two cities; the whole region was devastated up to the mines of precious metals, and the way was opened for the transportation of diorite and valuable ores from the Persian coast of the Gulf to Babylonia.[2]
- ↑ Mém., X, 1, and XIV, 4; the reading of the name Uba is doubtful.
- ↑ For the division of troops see the Constantinople inscription published by Thureau-Dangin in "Notes assyriologiques," RA, VII (1910), 179–84; see also the "Cruciform Monument" in CT, Vol. XXXII, Pls. 1–4; cf. L. W. King, "The Cruciform Monument of Manishtusu," RA, IX (1912), 91–105. For claims of wider conquest cf. the broken statue from Susa published by Scheil, "Inscription de Manistusu," RA, VII, 103–6, now in Mém.., XIV, 1–3; the Nippur text, Poebel, Historical Texts, pp. 205 ff.; and the document from Ur, Gadd and Legrain, Royal Inscriptions, No. 274.
The location of Anshan is still a moot point. So long as the homeland of the Achaemenian Persians was believed to lie around Pasargadae, scholars were agreed that Anshan must be located far to the southeast of Elam in the later Persis at no great distance from the Persian Gulf; cf. Prášek Geschichte, I, 189, n. 1, for a summary of the views expressed on
