Analysis of the bas-reliefs at this man's Bit-Hilani reveal that the severed head depicted belonged to the Elamite king Teumman whose defeat at the hands of this ruler during the Battle of Ulai in 635BC near modern day Karun resulted in the subsequent decapitation.
Analysis of the bas-reliefs at this man's Bit-Hilani reveal that the severed head depicted belonged to the Elamite king Teumman whose defeat at the hands of this ruler during the Battle of Ulai in 635BC near modern day Karun resulted in the subsequent decapitation. The head was destined to be presented at the temple of Ishtar at Arbela, recapitulating a scene from a work of literature associated with this person. Teumman's successor appointed by this man eventually conspired with this ruler's brother, Shamash-shum-ukin described by Marcus Justinius as a man more effeminate than a woman. The son of Esarhaddon and the grandson of Sennacherib, for 10 points, name this literate Assyrian king whose library at Nineveh contained fragments of the Enuma Elish  and the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Analysis of the bas-reliefs at this man's Bit-Hilani reveal that the severed head depicted belonged to the Elamite king Teumman whose defeat at the hands of this ruler during the Battle of Ulai in 635BC near modern day Karun resulted in the subsequent decapitation.
Ashurbanipal