ABSTRACT
The Elamites are the main subject of many reliefs of Ashurbanipal, who prioritized his victories against Elam even over his Babylonian conquests. The Elamites were depicted in great detail during the reign of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, both in iconographical and written sources, and there are very few similar cases where people have such correspondence between iconographical, textual and archaeological evidence. The Elamites are mostly shown in misery and despair or pleading for mercy, as prisoners or deportees, the corpses left in the battlefield or floating in the river. In the Til-Tuba battle scenes, all Elamites except Teumman are barefoot, wearing only a short-sleeved, often knee-length, belted tunic with V-shaped collar and a simple headband. The Elamite men and women are shown walking in rows, carrying their children and possessions with them under the watch of the Assyrian guards.
