Enammune, he too became shakkanakku of Elam; but if the new office implied an increase of power, it meant also an extension of his sphere of activities, for we find him embarking upon foreign conquest. Not improbably he declared to Naram-Sin that he was merely subjecting vassals who had been disobedient to the lord of Agade. On a statue presented to his god he states that when Kimash and Hurtum made war against him, he conquered them and ravaged Hupshana. Since Kimash was far up in the Zagros at a point opposite Kirkuk,[1] and Hurtum is possibly that Humurtum so familiar from Third Ur Dynasty date formulas, Naram-Sin might well have been wary, for it was into territory at least nominally his that Puzur-Inshushinak was entering. The Elamite also claims that he conquered over sixty other sites. Although these are enumerated apparently without topographical order, we may still gain some history from their names. Possible mention of Kashshen may be our earliest reference to the land from which the Kassites took their name. Gutu surely attests contact with the Gutians or with the land whence their
- ↑ On its location cf. Poebel in ZA, XXXIX (1930), 137 f.; on Hup shana cf. the Hupshan of Shilhak-Inshushinak, Mém., XI, 21 ff. (No. 92), obv. i 95 and rev. ii 34, and Mém., V, 39 ff. (No. 77), iv 10, and of the neo-Elamite Shutruk-Nahhunte, Mém., V, 67 (No. 85a), l. 9. Cf. the place Hupshan and the god Aiahupshan in Rawlinson, Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, Vol. II, Pl. 60, No. 1 i 7 f.
to the previous literature, has been made by F. Bork, Die Strichinschriften von Susa (Königsberg i. Pr., 1924). Unfortunately, there is no proof that these texts are duplicates of the Akkadian.
