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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.
Carl Benjamin (born September 1979), also known by his online pseudonym Sargon of Akkad, is a British right-wing YouTuber and political commentator. [6] [7] [8] A former member of the Eurosceptic UK Independence Party (UKIP), he was one of its unsuccessful candidates for the South West England constituency at the 2019 European Parliament election.
Shar-Kali-Sharri (great-grandson) Tashlultum ( fl. ca. late 24th to early 23rd centuries BCE) 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. [1]
Enheduanna ( Sumerian: 𒂗𒃶𒌌𒀭𒈾 [1] Enḫéduanna, also transliterated as Enheduana, En-he2-du7-an-na, or variants) 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. c. 2334 – c. 2279 BCE). She was likely appointed by her father as the ...
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.
Sargon II ( Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒈗𒁺, romanized: Šarru-kīn, meaning "the faithful king" [2] or "the legitimate king") [3] was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 722 BC to his death in battle in 705. Probably the son of Tiglath-Pileser III ( r. 745–727), Sargon is generally believed to have become king after overthrowing ...
Sargon of Akkad "whose father was a gardener, the cupbearer of Ur-Zababa, became king, the king of Agade, who built Agade" 40 years: c. 2270–2215 BC : Defeated Lugal-zage-si of Uruk, took over Sumer, and began the Akkadian Empire Rimush of Akkad "the son of Sargon" 9 years: c. 2214–2206 BC : Manishtushu
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]