See:
- Mark Altaweel, Anke Marsh, Simone Mühl, Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Karen Radner, Kamal Rasheed, Saber Ahmed Saber, “New Investigations in the Environment, History, and Archaeology of the Iraqi Hilly Flanks: Shahrizor Survey Project 2009-2011”, Iraq 74, 1-35-https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/24985/1/oa_24985.pdf
- http://ourancientworld.com/Settlement.aspx?id=1138
- Ernst Herzfeld, Gerold Walser, The Persian Empire: Studies in geography and ethnography of the ancient Near East, Steiner, University of Michigan, 1968, p. 18, ff.