Tell Leilan

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Tall Leilan (also Tell Leilan ) is a Tell in Haburdreieck, in north-east Syria. The settlement was inhabited from the Chalcolithic period in the 5th millennium BC to about 1700 BC. Its heyday reached in the late 3rd millennium BC under the name Sehna and around 1800 BC under Samsi -Adad I as the capital of his empire obermesopotamischen under the new name Subat - Enlil.

Research

The mound of Tall Leilan excavated in 1979 by archaeologists from Yale University under the direction of Harvey Weiss. In these studies, including a 1100 comprehensive texts clay tablet archives were found, providing an insight into political and economic relations in the 18th century BC. The finds from Tell Leilan are exhibited in the Museum of Deir ez- Zor.