Victory Stele of Naram-Sin, Akkadian, pink limestone, 2254-2218 . (Louvre, Paris)
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This monument depicts the Akkadian victory over the Lullubi Mountain people. In the12th century ., 1,000 years after it was originally made, the Elamite king, Shutruk-
Nahhunte, attacked Babylon and, according to his later inscription, the stele was taken to Susa in what is now Iran.
A stele is a vertical stone monument or marker often inscribed w