Akkad
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Feb 24, 2023 08:50 PM
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History
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ANE
Akkad (Māt-Akkadî) is the name of a historical region of central Mesopotamia (northern Babylonia). During the Sargonic/Akkadian Period (ca. 2334-2113 B.C.), its capital was the city of Agade, which may have been located somewhere near the confluence of the Diyala and Tigris Rivers. In cuneiform texts of the first millennium B.C., the term Māt-Akkadî was used for the name of the region roughly comprising the northern half of Babylonia, now modern-day central Iraq.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/56567730
32.5, 44.5
- Central Point:
- Representative centerpoint of Akkad (2335 BC - 30 BC)
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- Akkad (English, modern)
- Māt-Akkadî (Akkadian, 2335 BC - 30 BC)
- Uri (Sumerian, 2335 BC - 540 BC)
- Akkad connection Akkad Survey Area (unspecified date range)
- Agade part of (administrative) Akkad (2335 BC - 2000 BC)
region
Pleiades
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Akkad: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/56567730> [accessed: 03 October 2023]
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