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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