Naram-Sin: The God-King of Akkad
Naram-Sin was the last great king of the Akkadian Empire and the grandson of Sargon the Great, who founded the empire. Like his grandfather, he proclaimed himself "king of the four quarters of the universe," but in a bolder move, he began writing his name with a sign designating himself a god on equal footing with any in the Mesopotamian pantheon. In spite of his spectacular reign, considered the height of the Akkadian Empire, later generations would associate him with The Curse of Agade, a literary text belonging to the Mesopotamian literary genre known as naru literature.
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