[4][5] Ashurbanipal wrote: Susa, the great holy city, abode of their gods, seat of their mysteries, I conquered.

I entered its palaces, I opened their treasuries where silver and gold, goods and wealth were amassed...

I reduced the temples of Elam to naught; their gods and goddesses I scattered to the winds.

The tombs of their ancient and recent kings I devastated, I exposed to the sun, and I carried away their bones toward the land of Ashur.

I devastated the provinces of Elam and on their lands I sowed salt.Ashurbanipal's inscriptions and carvings at his palace in Nineveh show a humiliated Humban-haltash being forced to serve food at an Assyrian banquet.