Identifier: cu31924091767503 (find matches)
Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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unged it into his own breast. The triumphal entry was followed by the usual tortures. The head of Tiumman was fixed over the gate of Nineveh, to rot before the eyes of the multitude. Dunanu was slowly flayed alive, and then bled like a lamb; his brother Shamgunu had his throat cut, and his body was divided into pieces, which were distributed mentioned in the Assyrian documents, with the fact of the accession of the king who sent it. 1 Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph of the original in the British Museum. The head of Tiumman hangs on the second tree on the left-hand side. ELAM SUBJECT TO ASSYRIA 217 over the country as a warning. Even the dead were not spared : the bones of Nabu-shumirlsh were disinterred and transported to Assyria, where his sons were forced to bray them in a mortar.^ We may estimate the extent of the alarm which had been felt at Nineveh by the outburst of brutal joy with which the victory was hailed. The experience of the past showed what a terrible enemy Assyria had in Elam,
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TWO ELAMITE CHIEFS FLAYED ALIVE AFTER THE BATTLE OF TULLIZ. and how slight was the chance of a successful issue in a war against her. Her kings had often invaded Chaldea, and had more than once brought it directly under their sway; they had ravaged its cities and pillaged its temples, and the sanctuary of Susa were filled with statues of the ^ The fullest text of all those which narrate the campaign against Tiumman and Dunanu is that on Cylinder B of the British Museum. It pretends, as usual, that the king led the army in person, but the words which the seer places in the mouth of Ishtar prove that the king remained at Arbelaby divine command, and the inscription on one of the bas-reliefs, as well as Tablet K 8674, mentions, without giving his name, the general who was sent against Susa. * Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph taken in the British Museum. 218 THE POWER OF ASSYRIA AT ITS ZENITH gods or with bas-reliefs which they had dedicated after their campaigns on the Euphrates. Although th

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