ARTH101: Art Appreciation and Techniques

This monument depicts the Akkadian victory over the Lullubi Mountain people. In the 12th century B.C.E., 1,000 years after it was originally made, the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte attacked Babylon and, according to his later trancription, the stele was taken tu Susa in what is now Iran.

A stele is a vertical stone monument or marker often inscribed with text or relief carving.