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A History of Sumer and Akkad

Note 3 — Chapter VIII

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Rawlinson announced his discovery of the Legend of Sargon in the Athenæum, No. 2080, Sept. 7, 1867, p. 305, where he made the acute suggestion that Sargon of Assyria, the father of Sennacherib, may have been called "the later Sargon" (Sharru-ukîn arkû) "to distinguish him from the hero of romance whose adventures were better known among the Assyrian people."

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