Sargon II was an Assyrian king. He took the throne from Shalmaneser V in 722 BC. It is not clear whether he was the son of Tiglath-Pileser III or a usurper unrelated to the royal family. In his inscriptions, he styles himself as a new man, rarely referring to his predecessors; however he took the name Sharru-kinu, "true king", after Sargon of Akkad - who had founded the first Semitic Empire in the region some 16 centuries earlier. Wikipedia
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