Sumur [ Simyra, Sumuru, Zemar] was a city of the kingdom of Amurru. Tell Kazel occupied from Middle Bronze Age, situated in the northern part of the Akkar plain and has been tentatively identified with Sumur. According to Horst Klengel the later Phoenician Simyra.
Sources:
- Leila Badre ,Tell Kazel-Simyra: A Contribution to a Relative Chronological History in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age in: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 343 (Aug., 2006), pp. 65-95
- Peter Pfälzner: Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age, in: Originalveröffentlichung in: A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (eds. D.T. Potts), Oxford 2012, pp. 770-790 - http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/2856/1/Pfaelzner_Levantine%20Kingdoms%202012.pdf
- Horst Klengel,“ Sumur/Simyra und die Eleutheros- Ebene in der Geschichte Syriens ”,Klio 66, 1984, pp. 5 – 18