==Sargon's Birth Legend==

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//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Nineveh\\ 
//Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: British Museum, London (K 03401 + Sm 2118)\\ 
//Text genre, language//: Literary; Akkadian\\ 
[[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P365306|CDLI page]]\\ 

//Description//: This composition, so far, is known from four manuscripts, of which three belong to the Kuyuncik collection of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. The text contains an autobiography written as monologue by Sargon, king of Agade. He mentions how his mother, an //en//-priestess secretly gave birth to him. Then she placed the child into a basket and put it into the river. A water-drawer named Aqqi raised the boy. Subsequently the goddess Ishtar grew fond of him and so he became king. (Klaus Wagensonner, University of Oxford)

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//Editions//: Westenholz, J. G. 1997. //Legends of the Kings of Akkade. The Texts//. Mesopotamian Civilizations 7. Winona Lake, p. 38 - 49.

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