Shar-kali-sharri

Shar-kali-sharri is a king of Akkad, which reigned of approximately 2218 with 2193 av. J. - C.

Its name, which meant “King of all the kings”, is a perfect example of the ambitions universalists of his father Naram-Sîn, but it hardly carried chance to him. Indeed, the Shar-kali-sharri reign sees the Empire Akkad to lose most of its territory, and the titulature of this king shows that it adopts an attitude much more modest than that of his predecessor: whereas this last appointed “King of the Four-Areas” (i.e. Whole world), Shar-kali-sharri is sobrement made sobrement call “King d' Akkad”.

The kingdom of Akkad weakens considerably under the cruel attacks of people: Gutis and Lullubis of the Zagros, Amorrites into High Mésopotamie. Many areas take their independence, like the Élam under the impulse of Puzur-Inshushinak, old vassal of Naram-Sîn. In spite of some victorious battles which enable him to temporarily preserve the heart of its kingdom, Shar-kali-sharri is unable to prevent the disintegration of the Empire inherited its ancestors. Its death occurs in a catastrophic context. It is probable that some other characters went up on the throne of Akkad after Shar-kali-sharri, but their capacity was very weak, and they were to compose with the other sovereigns of the States of Low-Mésopotamie which had emerged from the ruins of the Empire of Akkad. The domination of this area is allocated then according to the historiographic tradition mésopotamienne to the kings gutis.

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Empire of Akkad

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