Where was Accad?

The high land or mountains, a city in the land of Shinar. It has been identified with the mounds of Akker Kuf, some 50 miles to the north of Babylon; but this is doubtful. Modern identification: Tell Sheshubar.

Accad is represented in the local geography layer as Tell Sheshubar. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Genesis 10:10 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 1 verse reference collected into the glossary index.