History
Naram-Sin
Sargon's grandson, and the first Mesopotamian king known to have claimed divinity in his own lifetime.
Illustration of The Akkadian empire, not a likeness of any person on this page.
- Standing:
- A real person. Objects, inscriptions or archives made in their own lifetime carry their name.
- Reigned:
- c. 2254 to 2218 BCE
- Period:
- The Akkadian empire · c. 2334 to 2154 BCE
What they did
extended the Akkadian empire to its greatest reach; wrote the divine determinative before his own name, which in a script where that sign marks gods is about as direct a claim as writing allows; the Victory Stele bearing his name is in the Louvre.
Sources
The references this entry is drawn from. ETCSL is the scholarly edition for the Sumerian texts; the rest are general references for the archaeology and the dates.
In the same period
Others our chronology places in The Akkadian empire.
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