Perhaps written within one or two generations after the fall of the city of Akkad (or Agade) and the concomitant collapse of its empire during the reign of Shar-kali-sharri (circa 2217 - circa 2193 B.C.E.), the poetic Sumerian text called The Cursing of Agade lays blame for the demise of Akkad on Shar-kali-sharri's father, Naram-Sin (circa 2254 - circa 2218 B.C.E.). In the poem Naram-Sin has a dream in which he sees Enlil, the chief god of the Sumerian pantheon, who had given kingship to Sargon (circa 2334 - circa 2279 B.C.E.), Naram-Sin's grandfather. Enlil is now determined to "not let the kingdom of Agade occupy a pleasant, lasting residence, that he would make its future altogether unfavorable, that he would make its temples shake and would scatter its treasures." In a vain effort to alter Enlil's pronouncement, Naram-Sin...