Sargon of Akkad
Founder of the Akkadian Empire, first ruler over a vast Mesopotamian dominion.
Chronology: -2350 โ -2300
Origins & Early Life
Sargon of Akkad (; Akkadian: ๐ฌ๐๐, romanized: ล arrugi; died c. 2279 BC), also known as Sargon the Great, was the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC. He is sometimes identified as the first person in recorded history to rule over an empire. He was the founder of the "Sargonic" or "Old Akkadian" dynasty, which ruled for about a century after his death until the Gutian conquest of Sumer.
Pivotal Works & Achievements
The Sumerian King List makes him the cup-bearer to King Ur-Zababa of Kish before becoming king himself. His empire, which he ruled from his archaeologically as-yet-unidentified capital, Akkad, is thought to have included most of Mesopotamia and parts of the Levant, Hurrian and Elamite territory. Sargon appears as a legendary figure in Neo-Assyrian literature of the 8th to 7th centuries BC. Tablets with fragments of a Sargon Birth Legend were found in the Library of Ashurbanipal. == Name == The Akkadian name is normalized as either ล arru-ukฤซn or ล arru-kฤn.
Enduring Legacy & Impact
The name's cuneiform spelling is variously LUGAL-รบ-kin, ลกar-ru-gen6, ลกar-ru-ki-in, ลกar-ru-um-ki-in. In Old Babylonian tablets relating the legends of Sargon, his name...
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