eastern mountains, Der received a shakkanakku by the forty-sixth year,[1] in which we hear once more of a devastation of Harshe, Kimash, and Humurtum.
While all these raids into foreign lands were being carried out, Susa and her lowlands appear to have been completely under Shulgi's control. The city may have been won at the time he first entered Anshan, that is, in his twenty-eighth year, for we first hear of an ishakku of Susa, Urkium, in the thirty-first. Thereafter the story is more easily told from Shulgi's own texts in the city. He erected a new temple for Inshushinak, the god of Susa, and a new dwelling for the goddess Ninhursag, known to Elamites since the days of the last king of Awan. His bricks, inscribed bronze statuettes, and stone tablets were still to be found on the Susian acropolis a millennium later when Shilhak-Inshushinak used them for foundation deposits, and again after another five hundred years when the neo-Elamite rulers employed them for the same purpose;[2] even Shulgi himself can hardly have expected such honor. To the great lady Ningal he
- ↑ Seals mentioning Ur-Sin, shakkanakku of Uruk and Der, published by Scheil in RA, XIII (1916), 20 f.
- ↑ All these objects were found in the neo-Elamite temple foundations; cf. De Mecquenem, Mém., VII, 63; XII, 67–72. Objects dedicated to Inshushinak include bricks: Mém., IV, 8, and VI, 20; statuettes: De Mecquenem, Mém., Vol. VII, Pl. 11; tablets: Mém., VI, 21; for the inscriptions cf. also SAK, pp. 190 ff. Other inscriptions of Shulgi have only recently been uncovered in the "Villa royale"; cf. De Mecquenem, Mém., XXV, 236. The texts of the objects dedicated to Ninhursag have not yet been published; cf. De Mecquenem, Mém., XII, 70–72.
