
This is a close-up image of the upper two thirds of the stela of Iddi-sin, King of Simurrum. It celebrates and commemorates the victories of this king against his enemies, mostly tribes of West Iran. The stela is carved with 108 lines of cuneiform inscriptions and was found at modern-day Qara-chatan village in the mid-1980s CE (during the Iraq-Iran war), near Pira-Magrun Mountain, Sulaimaniya Governorate, Iraq. Martyr Gareeb Haladnay and one of his friends found the stela and kept it in a safe place. In spite of various offers to sell the stela, they declined and Martyr Gareeb handed it over to the Sulaimnaiya Museum in 1993 CE, just few days before his assassination. Old-Babylonian period, 2003-1595 BCE. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).