At last they recognised that their power was broken.

Many bands probably returned across the Caucasus into the Steppe country.

Others submitted and took service under the native rulers of Asia.[14187] Great numbers were slain, and, except in a province of Armenia, which thenceforward became known as Sacasene,[14188] and perhaps in one Syrian town, which acquired the name of Scythopolis,[14189] the invaders left no permanent trace of their brief but terrible inroad.
The shock of the Scythian irruption cannot but have greatly injured and weakened Assyria.

The whole country had been ravaged and depopulated; the provinces had been plundered, many of the towns had been taken and sacked, the palaces of the old kings had been burnt,[14190] and all the riches that had not been hid away had been lost.

Assyria, when the Scythian wave had passed, was but the shadow of her former self.