CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.

This panel preserves an Assyrian warrior driving a cart to the left, with another walking along astride the horse. The style recalls one of the lower registers from the three-panel relief depicting the aftermath of the Battle of Til-Tuba, from Sennacherib's Southwest Palace, Nineveh, now in the British Museum (see fig. 250 in G. Brereton, ed., I am Ashurbanipal: King of the World, King of Assyria). The battle was initiated by the Elamite king Teumman after he seized the throne from a rival branch of the Elamite royal family who then fled to Assyria for Ashurbanipal's assistance. Ashurbanipal was successful in the battle and later designated his son Tammaritu to rule Elam.