Sargon Birth Legend

In Sargon’s voice the legend recounts secret birth, a bitumen-sealed basket and river transport to AqqiAqqi in Sargon’s birth storyAqqi is the irrigator who finds the child in the river and adopts him in Sargon of Akkad’s birth storyGlossary · Click to read the explanation, who adopts the child and makes him a gardener. The human rescuer must be distinguished from IshtarInanna / IshtarProminent Mesopotamian goddess with a major centre at Uruk, whose parentage and cult traditions vary rather than forming one fixed genealogy.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s later favour in his ascent. ^[2][4]

K.3401 from NinevehNineveh and KuyunjikNineveh is an ancient Assyrian city near Mosul in northern Iraq; Kuyunjik is one of its archaeological moundsGlossary · Click to read the explanation preserves a Neo-Assyrian witness. The king’s third-millennium BCE setting does not automatically date this account’s composition. AssociationShirkAssociating others with God in Quranic discourse; not equivalent to denying God’s existence.Glossary · Click to read the explanation with Sargon IISargon IISargon II was an Assyrian king of the late eighth century BCE; ORACC dates his reign about 721–705 BCEGlossary · Click to read the explanation is possible, not conclusive. ^[3][6]