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Family tree of Sargon of Akkad. The name of Sargon's main wife, Queen Tashlultum, and those of a number of his children are known to us. [73] [74] His daughter Enheduanna was a high priestess of the moon God in Ur who composed ritual hymns. [75] Many of her works, including her Exaltation of Inanna, were in use for centuries thereafter.
Enheduanna (Sumerian: 𒂗𒃶𒌌𒀭𒈾 [1] Enḫéduanna, also transliterated as Enheduana, En-he2-du7-an-na, or variants; fl. c. 2300 BC) was the entu (high) priestess of the moon god Nanna (Sīn) in the Sumerian city-state of Ur in the reign of her father, Sargon of Akkad (r.
Tashlultum (fl. c. 2300 BC) was a wife of King Sargon of Akkad.Her name is known to archaeology only from a single shard of an alabaster vase or bowl with an inscription indicating it was dedicated to the temple by her steward.
The king of Akkad (Akkadian: šar māt Akkadi, lit. ' king of the land of Akkad ' [1]) was the ruler of the city of Akkad and its empire, in ancient Mesopotamia.In the 3rd millennium BC, from the reign of Sargon of Akkad to the reign of his great-grandson Shar-Kali-Sharri, the Akkadian Empire represented the dominant power in Mesopotamia and the first known great empire.
Akkadian Empire and vassal cities that were subjugated by Sargon of Akkad c. 2300 BCE The Akkadian Empire was the first ancient empire of Mesopotamia , after the long-lived civilization of Sumer . It was centered in the city of Akkad [ 1 ] and its surrounding region.
Sargon, king of Akkad, unified Lower and Upper Mesopotamia, creating the first true Mesopotamian empire. Though Sargon most commonly used the title "King of Akkad" (šar māt Akkadi [18]), he also introduced the more boastful title of šar kiššatim ("King of Everything" or "King of the Universe"), used prominently by his successors. [19]
Sargon of Akkad had even during his reign explicitly been against linking Sumer and Akkad. There was some native Mesopotamian precedence for double titles of this kind, in the Early Dynastic III ( c. 2900 –2350) period, double titles were used by some kings with examples like "lord of Sumer and king of the nation" and "king of Uruk and king ...
The Sargon legend is a Sumerian text purporting to be Sargon's biography. In the text, Ur-Zababa is mentioned, who awakens after a dream. For unknown reasons, Ur-Zababa appoints Sargon as a cupbearer. Soon after this, Ur-Zababa invites Sargon to his chambers to discuss a dream of Sargon's, involving the favor of the goddess Inanna. Ur-Zababa ...