Old Akkadian cuneiform

Old Akkadian cuneiform refers to the earliest form of the Akkadian language written using the cuneiform script. Cuneiform, meaning "wedge-shaped," originated in ancient Mesopotamia around the end of the 4th millennium BCE with the Sumerians. This writing system evolved from pictographs into wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets.1

The Akkadians, a Semitic people who settled in Mesopotamia, adopted and adapted the cuneiform script to write their own language, Akkadian. This adaptation occurred around the mid-3rd millennium BCE. The inscriptions of Sargon of Akkad, who reigned around 2300 BCE, are among the earliest examples of Old Akkadian cuneiform. This script became a significant literary language and the oldest preserved Semitic dialect.12