[Illustration:  210.jpg THE LAST ARROW OF TIUMMAN AND HIS SON]

     Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph taken in the British
     Museum.

At the first discharge an arrow wounded Tiumman in the right side, and brought him to his knee.  He felt that all was over, and desiring at all events to be revenged, he pointed out the deserter prince to his companion, crying indignantly, “Let fly at him.”  The arrow missed its mark, and a flight of hostile darts stretched the young man on the ground:  the traitor Tammaritu dealt the son his death-blow with his mace, while an Assyrian decapitated the father.  The corpses were left on the field, but the head of the king, after being taken to the general in command, was carried through the camp on one of the chariots captured during the action, and was eventually sent to the palace of Arbela by the hand of a well-mounted courier.

[Illustration:  211.jpg DEATH OF TIUMMAN AND HIS SON]

     Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph taken in the British
     Museum.

The day concluded with the making of an inventory of the spoil, and by an enumeration of the heads of the slain:  prisoners from the rank and file were beaten to death according to custom, and several of the principal officers had their tongues torn out or were flayed alive.  The news of the disaster was brought to Susa towards evening by the fugitives, and produced a revolution in the city.  The partisans of the exiled princes, seizing the adherents of Tiumman, put them in chains, and delivered them up to the conqueror.  The shattered remnants of the army rallied round them, and a throng of men and women in festal garb issued forth along the banks of the Ulai to meet the Assyrians.  The priests and sacred singers marched to the sound of music, marking the rhythm with their feet, and filling the air with the noise of their harps and double flutes, while behind them came a choir of children, chanting a hymn under the direction of the consecrated eunuchs.  The Tartan met them, and, acting in accordance with the orders of Assur-bani-pal, presented to the multitude Khumban-igash, the eldest son of Urtaku, as their king.  The people joyfully hailed the new sovereign, and the Assyrians, after exacting tribute from him and conferring the fief of Khaidalu on his brother Tammaritu, withdrew, leaving to the new princes the task of establishing their authority outside the walls of Susa and Madaktu.  As they returned, they attacked the Gambula, speedily reducing them to submission.  Dunanu, besieged in his stronghold of Shapibel, surrendered at discretion, and was carried away captive with all his family.

[Illustration:  212.jpg Khumban-igash Proclaimed King]