The site of an ancient Mesopotamian town, whose identification is not completely certain. Proposals of identifying it with the ancient city of Akkad (or Agade) have not been accepted, given the apparent absence of sufficiently ancient remains at the site.
See:
- Trevor Bryce, The Routledge Handbook of The People and Places of Ancient Western Asia. Routledge 2009, .p. 196
- https://www.cemml.colostate.edu/cultural/09476/iraq05-094.html