She begs the moon god Nanna to intercede for her because the city of Uruk, under the ruler Lugalanne, has rebelled against Sargon.

Although mythical elements are not so prominent in Exodus as in Genesis, the echoes of ancient legends are crucial to understanding the book's origins and purpose: for example, the story of the infant Moses's salvation from the Nile has its basis in an earlier legend of king Sargon, while the story of the parting of the Red Sea trades on Mesopotamian creation mythology.

Sennacherib ( pronounced ; Akkadian: Sîn-ahhī-erība " Sîn has replaced ( lost ) brothers for me ") was the son of Sargon II, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria ( 705 – 681 BC ).

* 722-705 BC-An Assyrian bas-relief found in the ruins at Khorsabad during the excavation of the palace of Sargon II ( Sargon II ) has been claimed to depict falconry.

As many Babylonian officials as well as the Babylonian administrative system stayed in place after the transition of power, it has been surmised that this time was spent on negotiations with representatives from the city ; this is similar to what happened when the Neo-Assyrian king Sargon II and later Alexander the Great took the city.

The name " Sargon I " has also been used to refer to Sargon of Akkad, and the Assyrian Sargon may have been named after him.

Eannatum of Lagash was said to have smitten Subartu or Shubur, and it was listed as a province of the empire of Lugal-Anne-Mundu ; in a later era Sargon of Akkad campaigned against Subar, and his grandson Naram-Sin listed Subar along with Armani ( Armenians ),-which has been identified with Aleppo -, among the lands under his control.

Taking his professional name from the ancient king of the same name, Sargon has had a checkered career, acting mostly as a hero during the Golden Age aided by his cartoonish fat little comic relief sidekick / manager Maximillian O ' Leary as he battled crooks, spies and his azure-skinned archenemy the Blue Lama, Queen of Black Magic, but re-emerging in the Silver Age-as a villain, at least at first.

Thalassa goes to the briefing room to meet Sargon, who has just called on the doctor to meet him.

Suddenly, Sargon's mental voice returns and speaks to her ; she reports that Sargon has taken refuge within the ship itself.

As Nurse Chapel enters sickbay, Thalassa tells Dr. McCoy that Sargon has a plan, and orders him to leave sickbay.

He has a half-smirk on his face most of the time, and he makes a great contrast to the somewhat overplayed nobility of Sargon and Thalassa and their love.

A suggestion that Shebitku served as Shabaka's viceroy in Nubia and that Shebitku extradited Iamanni to Sargon II during the reign of king Shabaka has been rejected by the Egyptologist Karl Jansen-Winkeln in Ancient Egyptian Chronology ( Handbook of Oriental Studies ), which is the most updated publication on Egyptian chronology.

Two, from the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa ( compiled in Babylon around 1700 BCE ) are reported to have been made during the reign of king Sargon of Akkad ( 2334 – 2279 BCE ).

For the unnamed " king of Babylon " a wide range of identifications have been proposed. They include a Babylonian ruler of the prophet Isaiah's own time the later Nebuchadnezzar II, under whom the Babylonian captivity of the Jews began, or Nabonidus, and the Assyrian kings Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon II and Sennacherib, Herbert Wolf held that the " king of Babylon " was not a specific ruler but a generic representation of the whole line of rulers.

It may have been found in the ruins of the Emperor Sargon II's palace in Khorsabad.

The origins of falconry have been traced to Mesopotamia and the earliest record comes from the reign of Sargon II ( 722 – 705 BC ).

A crystal lens, turned on the lathe, was discovered by Austen Henry Layard at Nimrud along with glass vases bearing the name of Sargon ; this could explain the excessive minuteness of some of the writing on the Assyrian tablets, and a lens may also have been used in the observation of the heavens.

Transparent glass seems to have been first introduced in the reign of Sargon.

Although the 2006 Encyclopædia Britannica reflects Herodotus, stating, " They Cimmerians probably did live in the area north of the Black Sea, but attempts to define their original homeland more precisely by archaeological means, or even to fix the date of their expulsion from their country by the Scythians, have not so far been completely successful ," in recent research academic scholars have made use of documents dating to centuries earlier than Herodotus, such as intelligence reports to Sargon, and note that these identify the Cimmerians as living south rather than north of the Black Sea.

Some modern authors assert that the Cimmerians included mercenaries, whom the Assyrians knew as Khumri, who had been resettled there by Sargon.

Two, from the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa ( compiled in Babylon round 1700 BC ) are reported to have been made during the reign of king Sargon of Akkad ( 2334-2279 BC ).

Sargon explains that this is how they stored their minds after the war, and have been lying in wait for someone to find them.

In 716 BC, king Sargon II of Assyria moved against Mannea, where the ruler Aza, son of Iranzu, had been deposed by Ullusunu with the help of the Urartians.

Elam had been under the domination of Akkad since the time of Sargon, and Kutik-Inshushinak accordingly campaigned in the Zagros mountains on their behalf.

The first known mention of the city of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade — indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, whom the Sumerian King List claims to have built it.

Sargon is even recorded as having organised naval expeditions to Dilmun ( Bahrein ) and Magan, amongst the first organised military naval expeditions in history.

It is probable that the first collection of astronomical observations and terrestrial omens was made for a library established by Sargon.

* Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon, priestess and the first author known by name

* Sargon the Sorcerer, comic superhero character from DC Comics, first appeared in 1941

In circa 2300 BCE the Akkadian king Sargon the Great conquered all of Mesopotamia, uniting the Akkadian and Sumerians in the world's first empire, though this Akkadian empire collapsed after two centuries.

These people exist today as the modern Assyrians who are wholly Eastern Rite Christian but retain a distinct Mesopotamian language, Neo Aramaic ( which descends from the Aramaic first spoken in Mesopotamia in 1200 BCE and still retains hundreds of Akkadian loan words ) and identity and the naming of children with ancient names such as Ashur, Shamash, Semiramis, Lamassu, Ninus, Lilitu / Lilith, Sargon, Hadad etc.

Assyrians to this day still use the names of ancient Mesopotamian gods and rulers as both first and last names ; Ashur, Hadad, Shamash, Lilitu / Lilith, Sennacherib, Sin ( Shinu ), Sargon, Semiramis, Ishtar and Lamassu for example are still common names, and some months in the Assyrian calendar are named after ancient gods such as Tammuz, and all periods are listed as being blessed by ancient gods.

In his inscriptions, he styles himself as a new man, rarely referring to his predecessors ; however he took the name Sharru-kinu (" true king "), after Sargon of Akkad — who had founded the first Semitic Empire in the region some 16 centuries earlier.

Additional evidence that it was Shalmaneser, not Sargon II who initially captured Samaria, despite the latter's claim, late in his reign, that he was its conqueror, was presented by Tadmor, who showed that Sargon had no campaigns in the west in his first two years of reign ( 722 and 721 BC ).

It was so valued in early times that the first great Mesopotamian empire — the Empire of Sargon of Akkad -- listed the taking of diorite as a purpose of military expeditions.

The first glimpse dooms Sargon, whom Zatara convinces to ' die like a Sorcerer ' and not break the holding of hands.

Warpalawa is also mentioned in Assyrian texts, under the name Urballa, first in a list of tributees of Assyrian king Tiglath Pileser III and later in a letter of Sargon II.

The original Sargon first appeared in All-American Comics # 26, ( May 1941 ), and was created by John B. Wentworth and Howard Purcell.

The modern Sargon first appears in Helmet of Fate: Sargon # 1 ( April 2007 ) and was created by Steve Niles and Scott Hampton.

The first to fall was Sargon.

At first panicking and crying out for the others to help him, and almost pulling his hands away from the circle, Sargon was rebuked by Zatara to maintain his composure and die like a sorcerer.

David went on to play a part in Reign in Hell, assisting Zatanna and Blue Devil, and ultimately sacrificing himself to Lobo's mercy to allow many heroes and anti-heroes out of Hell ; this event left Zatanna and Blue Devil traumatized, as they were the ones who went to Sargon for help in the first place.

Some years later the couple was contacted by Apple and after a port for 68000 assembly, Sargon III was the first third-party executable software for the Macintosh.

At first, Kirk says that only he and Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy will beam down, leaving Spock on the ship, but Sargon shuts the ship's power down.