In reference to this most interesting stele of Naram-Sin we may here
mention another inscription of this king, found quite recently at
Susa and published only this year, which throws additional light on
Naram-Sin's allies and on the empire which he and his father Sargon
founded. The new inscription was engraved on the base of a diorite
statue, which had been broken to pieces so that only the base with
a portion of the text remained. From this inscription we learn that
Naram-Sin was the head of a confederation of nine chief allies, or
vassal princes, and waged war on his enemies with their assistance.
Among these nine allies of course the Princes of Sidur, Saluni, and
Lulubi are to be included. The new text further records that Naram-Sin
made an expedition against Magan (the Sinaitic peninsula), and defeated
Manium, the lord of that region, and that he cut blocks of stone in the
mountains there and transported them to his city of Agade, where
from one of them he made the statue on the base of which the text was
inscribed. It was already known from the so-called "Omens of Sargon
and Naram-Sin" (a text inscribed on a clay tablet from Ashur-bani-pal's
library at Nineveh which associates the deeds of these two early rulers
with certain augural phenomena) that Naram-Sin had made an expedition
to Sinai in the course of his reign and had conquered the king of the
country.
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