Explain how the iconography of the Stele of Naram-Sin speaks to the greatness of Naram-Sin

What will be an ideal response?


Essay responses should include these points:
Naram-Sin is larger than the other figures on the low-relief sculpture; therefore, according to the hierarchic scale, he is more important.
He also wears horns on his helmet and is closest to the mountain top and sun symbolizing his importance and power.
He steps upon the bodies of enemies and ascends upward.

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