. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . ir-^^=- -%>i«!Sw»*asi,r URTAKU, COUSIN OF TIUMMAN, SUEEENDEEING TO AN ASSYRIAN. • mountains. Urtaku, the cousin of Tiumman, was woundedby an arrow; perceiviag an Assyrian soldier coming up tohim, he told him who he was, and recommended him tocarry his head to the general: He will pay you hand-somely for it, he added. Tiumm&n had led in personseveral charges of his body-guard; and on being wounded,his son Tammaritu had succeeded in rescuing him from thethick of the fight: both seated together in a chariot, were 1 Drawn by Boudier, f
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . ir-^^=- -%>i«!Sw»*asi,r URTAKU, COUSIN OF TIUMMAN, SUEEENDEEING TO AN ASSYRIAN. • mountains. Urtaku, the cousin of Tiumman, was woundedby an arrow; perceiviag an Assyrian soldier coming up tohim, he told him who he was, and recommended him tocarry his head to the general: He will pay you hand-somely for it, he added. Tiumm&n had led in personseveral charges of his body-guard; and on being wounded,his son Tammaritu had succeeded in rescuing him from thethick of the fight: both seated together in a chariot, were 1 Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph of the original in the BritishMuseum. VOL. VIII. 210 THE POWER OF ASSYRIA AT ITS ZENITH in fall fliglit, wlien one of the wheels caught against a treeand was shattered, the shock flinging the occupants to theground. A large body of Assyrians were in close pursuit,led by one of the exiled Susian princes, a second Tam-maritu, son of Urtaku. At the first discharge an arrowwounded Tiumman in the right side, and brought him to. THE LAST ARROW OF TIDMMAN AND HIS SON. his knee. He felt that all was over, and desiring at allevents to be revenged, he pointed out the deserter princeto his companion, crying indignantly, Let fly at arrow missed its mark, and a flight of hostile dartsstretched the young man on the ground: the traitorTammaritu dealt the son his death-blow with his mace,while an Assyrian decapitated the father. The corpseswere left on the field, but the head of the king, after being 1 Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph taken in the British Museum. TIUMMAN AND HIS SON 211 taken to the general in command, was carried through thecamp on one of the chariots captured during the action,and was eventually sent to the palace of Arbela by thehand of a well-mounted courier. The day concluded with ^E^^igSr
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