Sargonic-Period Lexical Lists from Nippur

Anonymous / tradition (Sargonic-period scribal school) · c. 2334-2154 BC (the Sargonic period) · Nippur (Iraq) · other

Bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian word lists compiled for Nippur's scribal schools argue that ruling a conquered Sumerian-speaking population required a standardized vocabulary bridge before it required an army, laying groundwork the later Old Babylonian lexical tradition would formalize.