2012/12/04 by Benjamin R. Foster · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Ancient Near East History #Ancient Egypt and Archaeology #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Mesopotamia #Scholarship #Period (music) #Capital (architecture) #Ancient history #History #Capital city #Meaning (existential) #Ancient city #Geography #Archaeology #Art #Law #Political science #Economic geography #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah01005
openalex publication_date 2012/12/04 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
Abstract Akkad was originally the name of an area and city near the confluence of the Diyala and Tigris rivers in Mesopotamia (Adams 1965; Weiss 1997). The meaning of the word is unknown. After it became the seat of the Sargonic Dynasty around 2300 bce , Akkad as a territory expanded to mean northern Babylonia, from north of Nippur to Sippar. The city of the same name is first attested in the late Early Dynastic period, became an imperial capital in the Sargonic period, and was still occupied in the second millennium. By the mid‐first millennium the city's cults had been transferred elsewhere and the former capital was a famous ruin. In modern scholarship, the city is often distinguished from the region by calling it Agade. Its location has not been identified.