Akkad

Royal Inscriptions of Shar-kali-sharri

The last Akkadian king to control a functioning central state argues, through building and campaign records at Nippur, that the empire could still project order even as Gutian raids and the pressures later blamed on Naram-Sin's sacrilege were already pulling it apart.

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