Old Akkadian Administrative Tablets

Anonymous / tradition (Sargonic-period scribal administrators) · c. 2334-2154 BC (the Sargonic period) · Umma (Iraq) · administrative

Thousands of receipts, ration lists, and land-survey records from provincial archives argue that the Akkadian empire's real innovation was bureaucratic standardization, an Akkadian-language administrative apparatus layered onto conquered Sumerian city-state economies.