This culture’s funerary “grove temples” for a triad of deities may have held sacrificial šip (“ship”) feasts that continued under the [emphasize] later Teispids (“TACE-pids”), who wore its fringed royal robes. “Brother kings” used the honoric “my father” for this culture’s “grand regent,” or sukkalmah, to secure tin possibly sourced from the BMAC (“BEE-mack”). François Desset claimed to decipher this culture’s “linear” script, which is distinct from its namesake “proto” numerals that antedate cuneiform. This culture’s king Shutruk-Nakhunte plundered Sippar’s Louvre stele from the Kassites. This culture’s Middle Bronze Age Shimashki dynasty inspired Isin-Larsa period “city laments” about its conquest of Ur III (“three”) before its rule over Eshnunna was halted by Hammurabi. This culture’s language lost primacy in Anshan under the Achaemenids. For 10 points, what civilization built Susa in Iran? ■END■
ANSWER: Elam [or Elamites, elamtu, Elymais, Haltamtip, Hatamti, ḫalatamti, NIM, or hūja; accept Awan, a-wa-an, Šimaški, Proto-Elamite, Linear Elamite, or Elamite cuneiform; accept Susa, Susiana, Shusha, Šūšān, Çūšā, or Sousiānḗ until “Susa” is read; accept Anshan or Anzan until “Anshan” is read] (The BMAC was the Bactria-Margiana archaeological complex. Proto-Elamite may not actually be related to Linear Elamite.)
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