as "the king is established; legitimate", expanded as a phrase sarrum ki(e)num.

The terms "Pre-Sargonic" and "Post-Sargonic" were used in Assyriology based on the chronologies of Nabonidus before the historical existence of Sargon of Akkad was confirmed. The form Sarru-ukin was known from the Assyrian Sargon Legend discovered in 1867 in Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh.A contemporary reference to Sargon thought to have been found on the cylinder