Sumerian Legend of Sargon


The so-called Sumerian Legend of Sargon is literary in Sumerian. It is composed of two texts, assembled by curators Jerrold S. Cooper and Wolfgang Heimpel: TRS 73 (ie AO7673) and 3N T296. The surviving copies are probably of the Paleo-Babylonian age (beginning of the 2nd millennium BC). Cooper and Heimpel hypothesize that the story could have been outlined at the time of the Third Ur Dynasty (end of the 3rd millennium BC).

The text, concerning Mesopotamian King Sargon of Akkad (Sharru-kīn), tells of his taking of power to the damage of Ur-Zababa, king of Kish. Unlike other texts concerning the great Akkadian king, this legend also speaks of Sargon's father. Notemodify wikitesto

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