Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Akkad

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Greek and Roman Materials

View text chunked by:

Akkad

or Accad. The southeastern division of ancient Babylonia as distinguished from the northwestern division, which was called Sumir. The Akkadians, who appear to have come originally from Elam, were the dominant race in Babylonia at the time of its earliest history, and to them the Assyrians ascribed the civilization of Babylonia, and the invention of the cuneiform writing. There was also a city, Akkad, in the “land of Shinar.” See Assyria; Babylonia; Cuneiform Inscriptions.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar:

Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

This text is part of:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents:

Akkad