early and late Babylonian Empire, but other than describing them as “large siege towers” “brought … up to the wall” to capture a city,26 the texts give little indication of their number, size, design, or use. Such sparse information gives only hints about the weapons the Babylonians used, but these hints fit well within the far clearer information available from the earlier Assyrian military. Babylonian weaponry may have differed little, if at all. from that of their Mesopotamian predecessors.