Sultantepe

37.05027777777838.906111111111Koordinaten: 37 ° 3 ' 1 "N, 38 ° 54' 22" E

The Sultantepe is a powerful Tell near the present town of Şanlıurfa in southeast Turkey, on the route to Harran, which rises some 50 meters above the surrounding Harran level. Sultantepe is known for its spätassyrische colonization, in which he probably carried the name Ḫuzirina, mainly as a place of worship.

Excavations in Sultantepe found in the 1950s under the direction of Seton Lloyd and Nuri Gokce, where remains of an Assyrian city of BC came from the 8th and 7th century to the fore. In the ruins of the presumably extinct in a catastrophic fire, city there was an extensive archive of cuneiform texts. The 600 clay tablets belong to a variety of genera and show that the inhabitants of this Assyrian city contributed Aramaic name. The sinking of the city can be brought in temporal association with the conquest and destruction of the adjacent Harran 610.