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Aqqi in Sargon’s birth story

Aqqi is the irrigator who finds the child in the river and adopts him in Sargon of Akkad’s birth story

A clay tablet from Nineveh preserving Sargon’s birth legend, in which Aqqi is the irrigator who adopts the child. A seventh-century BCE Assyrian copy, British Museum K.3401. Photograph by Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2012; the narrative is later than the king’s lifetime
A clay tablet from Nineveh preserving Sargon’s birth legend, in which Aqqi is the irrigator who adopts the child. A seventh-century BCE Assyrian copy, British Museum K.3401. Photograph by Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2012; the narrative is later than the king’s lifetime© Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5 · CC BYLicense · Object record · Image source

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Aqqi is the irrigator who finds the child in the river and adopts him in Sargon of AkkadSargon of AkkadThird-millennium BCE king associated with later birth and ascent traditions.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s birth story. [1]

The story makes him Sargon’s adoptive father and assigns the child garden work. This is a role in the preserved later narrative, rather than an independently documented biography.

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  1. ETANA, Sargon’s birth legend, identity and context: Aqqi in Sargon’s birth story. Description and source metadata Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 13 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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