page_title: Sargon of Akkad
section_title: Popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Sargon of Akkad / Popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Sargon of AkkadFrançais&#160;: Tête en bronze d'un dirigeant acadien English: Bronze head of a king of the Old Akkadian dynasty, most likely representing either Naram-Sin or Sargon of Akkad. Unearthed in Nineveh (now in Iraq). In the National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad. Height 30.5 cm. M. E. L. Mallowan, "The Bronze Head of the Akkadian Period From Nineveh", Iraq / Volume 3 / Issue 01 / The British Institute for the Study of Iraq, Spring 1936, 104&#8211;110. "The life-size bronze head illustrated on Plates V–VII was found by Dr. R. Campbell Thompson and Mr. R. W. Hamilton at Quyunjiq in 1931 (during the excavations at Nineveh on behalf of the British Museum which were financed by Sir Charles Hyde, Bt.) and published in A.A.A., vol. XIX, pl. L. Since that time, however, the corroded surface of the metal has been cleaned, and the head appears once more in its pristine beauty. The metal has not yet been analysed, but it would appear to be bronze, and the head to have been cast, certain details having doubtless been worked out with a chisel. On grounds of style the workmanship may be assigned to the Akkadian period, and may be dated approximately to the twenty-sixth century B.C." Magyar: Sarrukint vagy Naram-Színt ábrázoló bronzfej Italiano: Testa in bronzo di dignitario accadico (forse Sargon di Akkad o Naram-Sin), conservata al Museo nazionale di Baghdad Deutsch: Bronzekopf eines akkadischen Königs, gefunden in Ninive, höchstwahrscheinlich Sargon von Akkad oder seinen Enkel Naram-Sin darstellend. Er befindet sich heute im Irakischen Nationalmuseum.
context_page_description: Sargon of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great, was the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC. He is sometimes identified as the first person in recorded history to rule over an empire.
  He was the founder of the "Sargonic" or "Old Akkadian" dynasty, which ruled for about a century after his death until the Gutian conquest of Sumer.
  The Sumerian king list makes him the cup-bearer to king Ur-Zababa of Kish. He is not to be confused with Sargon I, a later king of the Old Assyrian period.
  His empire is thought to have included most of Mesopotamia, parts of the Levant, besides incursions into Hurrite and Elamite territory, ruling from his capital, Akkad.
  Sargon appears as a legendary figure in Neo-Assyrian literature of the 8th to 7th centuries BC.
  Tablets with fragments of a Sargon Birth Legend were found in the Library of Ashurbanipal.
context_section_description: Although historically inaccurate and supernatural in nature, The Scorpion King: Rise of a Warrior (2008) features Sargon of Akkad as a murderous army commander who uses black magic. He was the film's main villain and was portrayed by American actor and mixed martial artist Randy Couture. This is one of the few films, if not the only one, to depict Sargon.
  The twentieth episode of the second season of Star Trek the original series, Return to Tomorrow, features an ancient, telepathic alien named Sargon who once ruled a mighty empire.
caption: The so-called "Mask of Sargon", after restoration, in 1936. The braided hair and royal bun, reminiscent of the headgears of Meskalamdug, Eannatum or Ishqi-Mari, are particularly visible. On stylistic grounds, this is now thought to represent Sargon's grandson Naram-Sin, rather than Sargon himself.[84]
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