by
Damien F. Mackey
“In the 1870s, Assyriologists thought Shar-Kali-Sharri was
identical
with the Sargon of Agade
of Assyrian legend …”.
Wikipedia
“The next recorded king of Akkad to rule for any
reasonable amount of time was Dudu,
who is said by the king list to have reigned for 21 years. However, by this
time the Akkadian empire was no more, and Dudu most likely controlled no more
than Akkad itself, meaning Shar-Kali-Sharri was the last Akkadian king to
actually have an empire under his control.
In the 1870s, Assyriologists thought
Shar-Kali-Sharri was identical with the Sargon
of Agade of Assyrian legend, but this identification was recognized as
mistaken in the 1910s.[15]”
But should it have been?
But it is now evident that Sharganisharri
was 'not confused with Shargani or Sargon' in the 'tradition' …but only by the
moderns who insisted on connecting the Sharganisharri of contemporary documents
with the Sargon of the Legend" D. D. Luckenbill, Review of: The
Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow, Jr., The American
Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures Vol. 33, No. 3 (Apr., 1917),
pp. 252-254.
“His name [Shar-Kali-Sharri] translated
means "king of kings” …”
That is reminiscent of “Sargon” (Šarru-kēn),
“True King” or “Legitimate King”.
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