A Dictionary of Akkadian Language

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John Noble Wilford, After 90 Years, a Dictionary of an Ancient World; 28,000 words covering a period from 2500 BC to AD 100. New York Times, June 7, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/science/07dictionary.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=assyrian%20dictionary&st=cse
(Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: "Actually, the basic language in question is Akkadian"

Note:
(a) Sargon of Akkad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargon_of_Akkad
(also known as Sargon the Great; Akkadian Šarru-kīnu, meaning "the true king" or "the king is legitimate; famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 23rd and 22nd centuries BC.[2] The founder of the Dynasty of Akkad, Sargon reigned from 2270 to 2215 BC)
(b) Accadian Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_Empire
(an empire centered in the city of Akkad; Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC (the exact dating being a matter of debate))
(c) Code of Hammurabi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi
(The Code is inscribed in the Akkadian language, using cuneiform script carved into the stele, today on display in the Louvre, in Paris)

* cuneifrom script
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_script
(one of the earliest known forms of written expression; Emerging in Sumer around the 30th century BC, with predecessors reaching into the late 4th millennium, cuneiform writing began as a system of pictographs; The original Sumerian script was adapted for the writing of the Akkadian, Egyptian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hittite, Luwian, Hattic, Hurrian, and Urartian languages, and it inspired the Ugaritic and Old Persian alphabets. Cuneiform writing was gradually replaced by the Phoenician alphabet during the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and by the 2nd century AD, the script had become extinct)

(d) Epic of Gilgamesh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh
(e) Nebuchadnezzar II  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_II
( c 634 – 562 BC; reign c. 605 BC – 562 BC; The Akkadian name, Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, means "Oh god Nabu, preserve/defend my firstborn son"--Nabu is the Babylonian deity of wisdom)
(f) Assyria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria
(named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur; After the fall of the Akkadian Empire circa 2080 BC, it eventually coalesced into two separate nations: Assyria in the north, and later Babylonia in the south)

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