Tell Dehaila is a probable capital of the First Sealand Dynasty (also named 2nd Dynasty of Babylon), which ruled the southernmost portion of Mesopotamia c. 1725-c. 1450 BC. The fortified settlement situated on the Eridu canal of the Euphrates appear to have been a significant administrative center. After the collapse of the city, part of the former settlement was used as a cemetery.
See:
- Alexei I . Jankowski-Diakonoff, АРХЕОЛОГИЯ ДРЕВНЕГО ВОСТОКА, Results of the Test Season of the Iraqi-Russian Expedition at Tell Dehaila-1, 2020
- Russian archaeologists found 4,000-old city in Iraqm https://en.vestikavkaza.ru/articles/Russian-archaeologists-found-4-000-old-city-in-Iraq.html
- Odette Boivin, The First Dynasty of the Sealand in Mesopotamia, Walter de Gruyter 2018, pp. 23, 68