Akkad
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- proper noun
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Akkad
- Fraba Jabba, because Sargon of Akkad's punctured bronze masks seems to say so.
- Sargon of Akkad
Examples
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There's an inscription on a brick, it reads, Shulgi, The Mighty Man, King of Ur, King of Sumer and Akkad, built Eharasag, his beloved house.
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This type of monster had no direct successors after the Uruk period, whereas other monsters, like the lion-headed eagle, survived in artworks until the end of the Akkad period, about 2150 B.C.
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This baby in a basket story was lifted directly from the myth of Sargon of Akkad, of around 2250 B.C.
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If the planet Jupiter approaches the constellation Crook, the harvest at Akkad will prosper.
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The queen may have been an Akkadian princess at a time when Akkad was at its height, extending from just south of Urkesh to the Persian Gulf, some 600 miles away.
Academic text (2008) -
Perhaps, he suggests, the Hurrians were earlier inhabitants of the region who, like the Sumerians, had to make room for the Semitic-speaking people who created the world's first empire based at Akkad in central Mesopotamia around 2350 B.C.
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As J.A. Brinkman has indicated, texts from Nuzi tell of a local king and prince visiting Babylonia (Akkad) and of Nuzi receiving fugitives from Babylonia.
Academic text (1991) -
Citizens of Akkad, I give you your new king.
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In ancient times, there arose in the lands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers a powerful kingdom called Akkad.
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Sargon based his empire in the city of Akkad, which became the basis of the name of his people.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Akkad is the name of an ancient city in Mesopotamia that became the centre of the Akkadian Empire, so the city name later came to mean the whole region and people and that is why historians use Akkad for both the city and its land.