The Assyrian Empire Map of Assyrian Empire View of Nineveh Homeland around modern Baghdad.
Continual plunder feeds Assyrian empire.
Assyrian relief of Assurbanipal, the capture of Hamanu, a city in Elam. I assaulted Ekron and killed the officials and patricians who had commited the crime and hung their bodies on poles surrounding the city. The rest of them, those who were not accused of crimes and misbehavior, I released. Himself I made a prisoner in Jerusalem, his royal residence, like a bird in a cage. I surrounded him with earthwork in order to molest those who were leaving his city's gate.