International audienceAs early as the 13th century, Assyrian Kings showed a keen interest in the Middle Euphrates, a remote area close to Babylonia and located on main roads passing though the steppe. Assyrian military campaigns are mainly known by royal inscriptions. But some iconographic sources also conveyed valuable information pertaining to assyro-suhean relationships, and to the Suhu proper, its diversity, its wealth, its natural environment. Iconographic documentation is constitued by the bronze bands of the Balawat gates, and by reliefs decorating the throneroom in the northwest palace in Nimrud dated to Ashurnasirpal II as well as the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser IIIQuoique relativement éloigné de l’Assyrie, le moyen Euphrate attir...