Old Babylonian

• the period of the First Babylonian Dynasty
  First Babylonian Dynasty
  
  The chronology of the first dynasty of Babylonia is debated as there is a Babylonian King List A and a Babylonian King List B. In this chronology, the regnal years of List A are used due to their wide usage....
   (20th to 16th centuries BC)
• the historical stage of the Akkadian language
  Akkadian language
  
  Akkadian or Assyrian-Babylonian is a Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian language, an unrelated language isolate....
   of that time

See also

• Old Assyrian
  Old Assyrian
  
  Old Assyrian refers to the Old Assyrian period of the Ancient Near East, ca. 20th to 16th centuries BC *the Old Assyrian Empire, see Assyrian Empire...