Akkad (city)
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Akkad was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia during a period of about 150 years in the last third of the 3rd millennium BC.
Manishtushu Obelisk, with close-up of the text. 2270–2255 BC, Louvre Museum
Agade-ki ("Country of Akkad"), on a cylinder seal of Shar-Kali-Sharri.
Akkadian language
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Akkadian is an East Semitic language that is attested in ancient Mesopotamia from the mid-third millennium BC until its gradual replacement in common use by Old Aramaic among Mesopotamians by the 8th
Akkad (city)
…Accad), in a list of the cities of Nimrod in Sumer (Shinar). In the early days of Assyriology, it was suggested that the name of Agade is not of Akkadian language origin. Proposals include Sumerian language, Hurrian language or the Lullubian (though that is unattested). The non-Akkadian origin of the city's name…
The Deluge tablet of the Gilgamesh epic in Akkadian
A Neo-Babylonian inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II
Georg Friedrich Grotefend
Edward Hincks