Akkadian Dynasty

Description:

The Akkadian Empire was centered in the city of Akkad and the surrounding region, uniting Semites and Sumerian speakers under one rule. During the 3^rd millennium BCE, Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as the spoken language. The empire reached its political peak following the conquest of its ruler, Sargon of Akkad. It reached from the Levant to Elam. It was preceeded by the Early Dynastic Period and succeeded by the Guti Period. The main rulers were Sargon, Rimush, Manishtushu, and Naram-Sin. It has been suggested that the decline of the empire was due in part to climate change, with rapidly increasing aridity, which led to drought and the collapse of trade networks.

Ultra Low Chronology

Short/Low Chronology: 2230-2050

Middle Chronology: 2340-2154 BCE

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
12465	30-12-595	(none)	(none)	Gold ribbon. Wound in a spiral coil probably round a lock of hair (found on and under the head). Broken into several pieces.
12620	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper bowl. Saucer shaped. Type XIV [drawing 2:5]
12641A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Copper bowl hemispherical. Distorted. [B] (2) Copper pin - straight type. [C] (3) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit in bad condition. Presentation scene.
12651	(none)	1929,1017.651	(none)	Copper bowl. Hemispherical. [Type] III.
12659	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper bowl. Hemispherical. [Type] III.
12661	30-12-256	(none)	(none)	Copper bowl. Oval type. [Type] LXIII.
12695C	(none)	1929,1017.634	(none)	Group: [A-B] 1) Two silver earrings: one of normal, small, lunate type 1 1/2 coils; the others also consists of 1 1/2 coils but one end consist of a broad and thin elliptical bend thus - [drawing] [C] 2) Copper bowl. Hemispherical [D] 3) Stone bowl. Containing traces of a reddish pigment? Limestone. [drawing]
12706C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Copper pin. Type V B with lapis ball head. Badly broken. [B] (2) Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli. 2 registers. Men fighting rampant animals. [C] (3) Copper bowl. Hemispherical [Type] III. [D] (4) Beads. Lapis and carnelian lentoids, lapis barrels and double conoids, carnelian rings, silver balls, square chalcedony (diamond shaped in section) calcite bead similar in type. [E] (5) Amulet in shape of a silver frog. [F] ( 6) Silver ear (?) ring 2 1/2 spiral wire coils.
12711G	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Copper dagger. Type II E. [B] (2) Copper reticule. [C] (3) Stone bowl. Calcite. Type LI. [drawing 2:5] [D] (4) Carnelian bugle beads - three probably worn round forehead. [E] (5) Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXXIV. [drawing 3:5] [F] (6) Silver earring. 1 1/2 spiral coils lunate ended. [G] (7) Copper vase. Cylindrical. Type LVII. [drawing 2:5] [H] (8)Copper pin. Type V B with lapis ball head. [I] (9) Copper axe. Type XX. [J] (10) Bowl greyish stone. Broken and rivetted in antiquity. Type XVIII. [K] (11) Beads small lapis and silver double conoids. Carnelian lentoids. [drawing 1:5] [L] (12) Cylinder seal. Lentoid shaped. 2 registers. Gazelles (?). Lapis lazuli.
12978	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. Fragment of contract (?)
13529	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Bowl. Hemisherical. Bottom broken. Distorted.
13530	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper bowl. Hemispherical. Distorted. Type III.
13583	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Bowl. [drawing]
13588	31-17-175	(none)	(none)	Copper Bowl. Flattened hemispherical. Distorted.
13590	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Bowl. Hemispherical & distorted. Type III
13649	(none)	1930,1213.606	(none)	Tablet. Accounts. Sargonic. HC.304.
13803	(none)	1930,1213.641	(none)	Tablet. Fragment of accounts (about Sargonic period) ref. to beans and field of as (Emmer)-gig.... HC..307. UET II: 24 supp).
13835	37-7-95	(none)	(none)	Tablet. About Agade period? proper names. HC.308. UET II: 31 supp.)
14212	31-17-187	(none)	(none)	Copper axe. Socketed type with flange at back of socket. Type XX.
16002	(none)	1931,1010.3	(none)	Stone stela. Fragment of lower part of black shale stela, with rough and for insertion in stand, and bas of raised frame, containing an inscription of 1 column, 10 lines. All sculpture missing. Naram-Sin. HC.UET 8/2 (hand Copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING: information from later typed transcription]
16030	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Business document. One face missing. HC.30/VII, 1. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16531	31-43-250, 31-43-250	(none)	(none)	Mace head, white calcite. Fragment. Naram-Sin: dedication to KA-DI. H.C. 30/III,4
16532	31-43-251	(none)	(none)	White calcite mace-head Fragment. Rimush. H.C. 30/111, 3.
17647	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. One side complete, the reverse flaked off.
17655	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay label. Circular, of dark clay. Most of the face flaked away, but are the edge remains of inscription in archaic characters, linear receipt, with circular numerals.