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the Uknu, or Blue River, perhaps the modern Karoon, bordering on Elam. 
Bel-ikisha rebelled against Assyria, and with his troops joined Elam. 
Nabu-shum-eresh, the _TIK-EN-NA_, apparently sheik
of the district of Dupliash, another Assyrian subject, seems to have done the 
same.
Marduk-shum-ibni, the general of Urtaku, who

led the invasion, was evidently not an Elamite, but perhaps a Chaldean, or 
renegade

Babylonian. At any rate, the Elamites invaded Akkad and covered
the land like grasshoppers. They laid siege to Babylon. On the approach of the 
Assyrian army, the invaders fled. Urtaku died. Bel-ikisha was killed by a wild 
boar. Nabu-shum-eresh
was smitten with dropsy and died. "In one year the gods cut them off." The
throne of Elam fell to Teumman, a brother of Urtaku, who maintained a hostile 
attitude. Dunanu, son and successor of Bel-ikisha, joined Teumman. Ashurbanipal 
accordingly invaded Elam, defeated
and slew Teumman, ravaged the land of Gambulu
and captured Dunanu, who was taken to Nineveh
and made to march in the triumphal procession,

with the head of
Teumman slung about his neck, and was

finally tortured to death. (M824) All the time that Shamash-shum-ukin was king 
in Babylon, Ashurbanipal seems to have retained the rule over Southern 
Babylonia. At any rate, the governors of the cities there wrote to him as their 
king and lord. The above-mentioned revolt in Gambulu was a direct concern of
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