Mountain," called today the "Pagan's Pass," south of the Shehrizor. The Lullubian was hopelessly defeated, and to commemorate the victory the king of Agade carved on the walls of the gorge a relief,[1] the prototype of the better-known "Stele of Victory."[2] A wholly different outcome resulted from Naram-Sin's attack on the Guti, for these barbarians, soon to overrun all Babylonia and to bring an end to his dynasty, inflicted upon him a crushing defeat.[3]
In Elam proper, Naram-Sin knew how to reward long years of faithful service; Enammune, once merely the ishakku of Elam, became shakkanakku, or governor, of the land, and as such made a new official seal.[4] Perhaps the post he relinquished fell to a de serving Elamite, Puzur-Inshushinak, son of Shimbiishhuk, who first appears as the ishakku of Susa. Eager to please his masters, this prince at first wrote his inscriptions in Akkadian only,[5] but soon he was putting alongside of this language his own proto-Elamite.[6] Perhaps with the death or removal of
- ↑ Described by C. J. Edmonds, "Two Ancient Monuments in Southern Kurdistan," Geographical Journal, LXV (1925), 63 f., reproduced in Sidney Smith, Early History of Assyria, p. 97; the exact site in the Darband-i-Gawr gorge of the Qara Dagh is near Seosenan on the route between Sulaimaniyah and Rubat.
- ↑ Mém., I, 144 ff., and II, 53 ff., Pl. 11; cf. SAK, pp. 166 f.
- ↑ Weidner Chronicle from Ashur; see Güterbock in ZA, XLII (1934), 47 ff.
- ↑ Mém., XIV, 6.
- ↑ Door socket in Scheil, Mém., VI, 7.
- ↑ Statuette of a goddess in Scheil, Mém., XIV, 17 ff. The latest attempt to decipher all the proto-Elamite texts of this ruler, with references
