A Late Bronze Age fortified administrative centre - dunnu was installed atop the Neolithic tell. The dunnu, dated ca. 1225-1120 BC.
See:
- https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/research-projects/archaeology/tell-sabi-abyad-syria
- P.M.M.G. Akkermans, The Fortress of Ili-pada. Middle Assyrian Architecture at Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria, Brepols, in: Les espaces Syro-Mésopotamiens: dimensions de l'expérience humaine au Proche-Orient ancien : volume d'hommage offert à Jean-Claude Margueron, Turnhout 2006,pp. 201-211 [http://www.academia.edu/564232]