Old Akkadian Year-Name Formulas

Anonymous / tradition (Sargonic-period scribal administrators; Akkad's own chancery seat is archaeologically unlocated) · c. 2334-2154 BC (the Sargonic period) · Nippur (Iraq) · administrative

The Akkadian practice of naming each year after a king's major military or building achievement, rather than numbering regnal years, argues that ordinary dated transactions, a receipt, a loan, could not be recorded at all without first ratifying the king's own version of that year's history.