Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin is a limestone monument, roughly two meters tall in its surviving state, carved around 2250 BC to commemorate the Akkadian king Naram-Sin's victory over the Lullubi, a mountain people of the Zagros region. The stele departs from earlier Mesopotamian convention by arranging its figures on a rising diagonal rather than in horizontal registers, with Naram-Sin towering over his own orderly soldiers and the broken ranks of his enemies, some of them shown falling, trampled or pierced by weapons. The king wears a horned helmet, a symbol until then reserved for gods, signaling his own claim to divine status. French excavator Jacques de Morgan found the stele in 1898 at Susa in modern Iran, where an Elamite king had carried it centuries after it was carved and added his own cuneiform inscription; it is now held at the Louvre in Paris. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/