Identifier: cu31924091767503 (find matches)
Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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uare footboardplaced flat on the axle of the wheels, and furnished withtriangular side-pieces on two sides only, the vehicle beingdrawn by a pair of horses. Such chariots were easier tomanage, better adapted for rapid motion, and must havebeen more convenient for a reconnaissance or for skirmisheswith infantry; but when thrown in a mass against theheavy chariotry of the peoples of the Euphrates, they werefar too slightly built to overthrow the latter, and at close ^ The site of Tulliz is unknown. Billerbeck considers, and with reason,I think, that the battle took place to the south of Susa, on the river Shavur,which would correspond to the Ulai, on the lowest spurs of the ridge of hillsbordering the alluvial plain of Susiana. 206 THE POWER OP ASSYRIA AT ITS ZENITH quarters were of necessity crushed by the superior weightof the adversary. Tiumman had not succeeded in collect-ing all his forces before the first columns of the Assyrianarmy advanced to engage his front line, but as he was
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ITUKI BREAKS HIS BOW WITH A BLOW OF HIS SWORD, AND GIVES HIMSELi UP TO THE EXECUTIONER. expecting reinforcements, he endeavoured to gain time bydespatching Ituni, one of his generals, with orders tonegotiate a truce. The Assyrian commander, suspecting aruse, would not listen to any proposals, but ordered the envoyto be decapitated on the spot: Ituni broke his bow with ablow of his sword, and stoically yielded his neck to the ^ Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph taken from the original in theBritish Museum.

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