Mound at Banāt al-Hassan (Adams 131)

archaeological site · 2950 BC – 2100 AD · location approximate

Part of a group of mounds in central Mesopotamia, this settlement (number 131 in Adams 1972) contained remains dated to the Early Dynastic I-Old Babylonian periods (chiefly Ur III-Larsa). The site also contains a number of burials from the Parthian period, fragments of Sasanian pottery, and the remains of an Early Islamic structure.