User:Ishiakkum

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[edit] What is ishiakkum anyway?

``Mesopotamian society was organized around city-states. In early Sumerian times, a priest-king (en) ruled as a representative of the city's god, assisted by an assembly of citizens or elders. Later, as multicity states formed, a king (Sumerian lugal, Akkadian sharrum) reigned, and each individual city was administered by a governor (ensi or ishiakkum).`` [1] --Ishiakkum 08:50, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

An ishiakkum was a governor if not king responsible for a city in the Akkadian multicity state ruled by the emperor called sharrum such as Sargon, who was "probably the same person as the first Sargon of Assyria (also known as Sharrukin or Sharru-kin meaning 'true king' in Akkadian)." I wish someone could let me know whether sharru or kin means 'king.' For the first time, I edited today the Etymology of Governor synonymous to my ID Ishiakkum as follows:

``The English word "governor" stems from the Latin gubernātor and the Greek kybernetes (helmsman or steersman), which in origin stem from the Latin gubernare and the Greek kybernan (to steer or govern). The recent English word "cybernetics" shares the same etymology! Strictly or etymologically speaking, the word "governor" is therefore supposed to be a metaphor derived from "steersman".``

--Ishiakkum 10:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Sargon is the biblical form.

``The Assyrian king Sargon II (reigned 722-705 BC) was one of the chief architects of the late Assyrian Empire and the founder of its greatest line of kings. Sargon II, upon his accession, took the name Sharrukin (Sargon is the biblical form), after the illustrious founder of the Akkadian dynasty, who had died 1,600 years before. This name and the fact that his predecessor, Shalmaneser V, reigned very briefly suggest that Sargon may have been a usurper.`` [2] --Ishiakkum 14:28, 13 July 2005 (UTC)