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Akshak
Sign in to saveAkshak (Sumerian: , akšak) (pre-Sargonic - u4kúsu.KI, Ur III - akúsu.KI, Phonetic - ak-su-wa-ak) was a city of ancient Sumer, situated on the northern boundary of Akkad, sometimes identified with Babylonian Upi (Greek Opis). It is known, based on an inscription "‘Ur-kisala, the sangu-priest of Sin of Akshak, son of Na-ti, pasisu-priest of Sin to Salam presented [this statue]." that there was a temple of the god Sin in Akshak.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Akshak
- Ancient site.native_name
- 𒌔𒆠
- Ancient site.map_type
- Near East#Iraq
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Uncertain; somewhere in the Diyala Governorate of the Republic of Iraq
- Ancient site.region
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient site.type
- City
- Ancient site.epochs
- Early Dynastic I, II, and III, Akkadian, Ur III, Isin-Larsa, Old Babylonian
- Ancient site.cultures
- Sumer
- Ancient site.occupants
- Sumerians
- Ancient site.condition
- Lost city
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Akshak (Sumerian: , akšak) (pre-Sargonic - u4kúsu.KI, Ur III - akúsu.KI, Phonetic - ak-su-wa-ak) was a city of ancient Sumer, situated on the northern boundary of Akkad, sometimes identified with Babylonian Upi (Greek Opis). It is known, based on an inscription "‘Ur-kisala, the sangu-priest of Sin of Akshak, son of Na-ti, pasisu-priest of Sin to Salam presented [this statue]." that there was a temple of the god Sin in Akshak.
==History== thumb|left|Cities of Sumer with one guess for location of Akshak Akshak first appears in a Sumerian literary composition ''Dumuzid's dream, where Dumuzid king of Uruk is said to have been toppled from his opulence by a hungry mob composed of men from the major cities of Sumer, including Akshak. The partially literary Sumerian king list mentions Unzi, Undalulu, Urur, Puzur-Nirah, Ishu-Il and Shu-Sin as kings of Akshak. Puzur-Nirah is also mentioned in the millennia later literary composition Weidner Chronicle'' as reigning in Akshak when a female tavern-keeper, Kug-bau of Kish, was appointed overlordship over Sumer.