AGADÊ (formerly but erroneously read Aganê). A city of Northern Babylonia and the capital of Sargon, the founder of the first Semitic empire ( c [Note: circa, about.] . b.c. 3800). As was first discovered by George Smith, Agadê was the Semitic Akkadu (see Akkad). It stood near Sippara or Sepharvaim (wh. see), and may have been in later times a suburb of the latter town.
A. H. Sayce.