One strategy adopted by both Sargon and Naram-Sin, to maintain control of the country, was to install their daughters, Enheduanna and Emmenanna respectively, as high priestess to Sin, the Akkadian version of the Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer; to install sons as provincial "ensi" governors in strategic locations; and to marry their daughters to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire (Urkesh and Marhashe).
V Mesalimovem času, ko je dinastija vladala v mestu Kish, je bila priznana vloga "šar kiššati" (= kralj Kisha) in je bila cenjena eminenca v Sumeriji, verjetno zato, ker je bilo mesto na sotočju dveh rek in kdor je imel nadzor nad Kishem, je nadziral namakalne sisteme v drugih mestih dolvodno.