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The Elamites carry off Hammurabi's stele

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c. 1158 BC · Babylon · Middle East · War

The trophy turned up in Susa three thousand years later

The Elamites carry off Hammurabi's stele
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Around 1158 BC the Elamite king Shutruk-Nakhunte crushed Kassite Babylonia and carried trophies off to Susa, among them the stele of Hammurabi's laws and the victory stele of Naram-Sin. French archaeologists found them there in 1901; both are now in the Louvre.

State: Babylonia