. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . d, amongst other edifices, the tombs of the ancientheroes of Elam, who had feared neither Assur nor Ishtar,and who had often brought trouble on the ancestors ofAssur-bani-pal. Their sepulchres were violated, theircoffins broken open, their bones collected and despatchedto Nineveh, to crumble finally into dust in the land ofexile : their souls, chained to their mortal bodies, sharedtheir captivity, and if they were provided with the necessarysustenance and libations to keep them from annihilation, itwas not from any motives of compassi
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . d, amongst other edifices, the tombs of the ancientheroes of Elam, who had feared neither Assur nor Ishtar,and who had often brought trouble on the ancestors ofAssur-bani-pal. Their sepulchres were violated, theircoffins broken open, their bones collected and despatchedto Nineveh, to crumble finally into dust in the land ofexile : their souls, chained to their mortal bodies, sharedtheir captivity, and if they were provided with the necessarysustenance and libations to keep them from annihilation, itwas not from any motives of compassion or pity, but from arefinement of vengeance, in order that they might thelonger taste the humiUation of captivity. The image ofNana was found among those of the native gods: it wasnow separated from them, and after having been cleansedfrom pollution by the prescribed ceremonies, it wasconducted to Uruk, which it entered in triumph on the 1stof the month Kislev. It was reinstated in the temple ithad inhabited of old: sixteen hundred and thirty-five years. DISPOSITION OF THE POPULATION 255 had passed since it had been carried off, in the reign ofKutur-nakhunta, to dwell as a prisoner in Susa. Assur-bani-pal had no intention of preserving thecity of Susa from destruction, or of making it the capitalof a province which should comprise the plain of it appeared to him too difScult to defend aslong as the mountain tribes remained unsubdued, orperhaps the Blamites themselves were not so completelydemoralised as he was pleased to describe them in hisinscriptions, and the attacks of their irregular troopswould have rendered the prolonged sojourn of the Assyriangarrison difficult, if not impossible. Whatever the reason,as soon as the work of pillage was fully accomplished,the army continued its march towards the frontier, carry-ing with it the customary spoil of the captured towns,and their whole population, or all, at least, who hadnot fled at the approach of the enemy. T
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