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40 Akkad. Fortified by this success—for safe return from an invasion into the land of the king of Agade, the king of the "Four World-Quarters," could be considered nothing less than a triumph—Puzur-Inshushinak was at once crowned king of Awan, as successor of Hita. As for Sharkalisharri, it is no wonder that he was thereafter merely "King of Agade," while the Elamite Puzur-Inshushinak tells how in one year Inshushinak looked with favor upon him, the mighty king of Awan, and granted to him the "Four World-Regions."

Meanwhile the peoples of the central Zagros had become restless. To highlanders such as themselves the lowlands of Babylonia seemed always most desirable. From afar they watched the fertile plain teeming with activity, until desire or need became too strong, or new peoples appeared from their rear to drive them forward. Then irresistibly they poured into the rich land which lay before them. For a time they obtained control; more and more, however, they themselves became subject to the higher civilization which they found in the new habitat, and succumbed to its inexorable influences.

So it was with the people of Lullubium. From their central point, the Shehrizor, they advanced southeastward to the district Holwan, where a relief of their king Anubanini has been found at Zohab near