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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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Naram-Sin

Naram-Sin (que reinó de 2261-2224 a.C.) fue el último gran rey del Imperio acadio y nieto de Sargón el Grande (que reinó de 2334-2279 a.C.), que había fundado el imperio. Está considerado el rey acadio más importantes después de Sargón o, según algunos, incluso por encima de él, y, junto a su abuelo, se convirtió en una figura casi mítica en las leyendas e historias mesopotámicas.

Naram-Sin Stele, found in Susa, one of the greatest masterpieces of Mesopotamian art and brought to Susa by an Elamite king as war booty, is the stele made by the King of Akkade against the mountain tribe Lulus or Lulubes. It was erected to commemorate his victory on the northern slope of the Zagros.

Midjourney's portraits of the ruler Naram-Sin, ruler of the Akkadian Empire, and Ramesses the Great, ruler of Egypt, respectively.