Tell Afis located ca 15 km SE to Aleppo is identified with ancient Assyrian Hattarika - Aramean Hazrek, Hazrach or ancient biblical Hadrach.
- Trevor Bryce. The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia, Routledge 2009, sv. Hattarika
- Margaret Stefana Drower and J.ean Bottéro, ‘Syria Before 2200 B.C.’, in Edwards, I.E.S., Gadd, C.J., and Hammond, N.G.L. (eds.) The Cambridge Ancient History:. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971, pp. 315–362., p.335
- Stefania Mazzoni, Tell Afis and the Early Middle Bronze Age Transition, in: Ricerche di Archeologia del Vicino Oriente, Pisa 2013, ,pp. 31-80
