Dr Joan Westenholz is a writer on Middle east history and was born in 1943.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationConcordance of Museum NumbersConcordance of Publication NumbersAbbreviationsChapter 1. IntroductionDefinition of the CorpusRecovery of the Texts and the History of ScholarshipTerminologyPoetic Discourse, Orthography, and GrammarPart A: SargonChapter 2. The Sargon ‘Autobiographies’Text 1. Old Babylonian Fragment: ‘I, Sargon’Text 2. ‘The Wisdom of Sargon’: The ‘Birth Legend’ of SargonChapter 3. Sargon’s Rise to Power: Sargon, Ur-Zababa, and LugalzagesiText 5. Sumerian-Akkadian Bilingual Exercise TextChapter 4. Res Gestae SargonisText 6. ‘Sargon, the Conquering Hero’Text 7. ‘Sargon in Foreign Lands’FragmentsText 8. ‘Sargon, the Lion’Text 9. ‘King of Battle’Text 9B. Amarna RecensionText 9C. Amarna FragmentText 9D. Assur FragmentText 9E. Nineveh RecensionChapter 5. The Sargon LettersText 10. Nippur LetterText 11. Ur LetterPart B: Naram-SinChapter 6. Naram-Sin and the Lord of ApisalText 12. ‘Naram-Sin and the Lord of Apisal’Chapter 7. Erra and Naram-SinText 13. ‘Erra and Naram-Sin’Chapter 8. Elegy on the Death of Naram-SinText 14. ‘Elegy on the Death of Naram-Sin’Chapter 9. The Great Revolt against Naram-SinText 15. The Old Akkadian ExerciseText 16. The Old Babylonian Excerpt VersionsText 16A. Mari VersionText 16B. Geneva VersionText 17. ‘Gula-AN and the Seventeen Kings against Naram-Sin’Text 19. ‘The Tenth Battle’Chapter 10. ‘Naram-Sin and the Enemy Hordes’: The ‘Cuthean Legend’ of Naram-SinText 20. The Old Babylonian EditionText 21. The Middle Babylonian RecensionText 22. The Standard Babylonian RecensionIntroductionComposite Text and TranslationManuscripts and ScoreIndexesIndex of Personal NamesIndex of Divine NamesIndex of Geographical and Topographical NamesIndex of Literary TextsIndex of Words DiscussedGeneral IndexPlates