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36 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, the prototype of the better-known "Stele of Victory." 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.

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. 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, but soon he was putting alongside of this language his own proto-Elamite. Perhaps with the death or removal of