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=== Tell Waresh 2 ===
The site of Tell Waresh 2 (first called Tell Hindi2 because it is located about 1 kilometer north-west of Tell Hindi, later named after Tūlūl Werrish which lies 3 kilometers to the southwest) lies 12 kilometers northeast of Nippur (UTM 38 S 532261.73 m E, 3561401.12 m N) and was subject to a rescue excavation in 1990 led by Muhammad Yahya Radhi on behalf of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. It was one of a number of rescue excavation in response to the digging of the Main Drain Canal project. The site showed outlines of buildings and many artifacts on the surface. Remains were of the Isin-Larsa period and included terracotta plaques, figurines, clay sealings, cylinder seals, and a number of cuneiform tablets, mainly legal documents. The most prominent of the latter were 29 tablets found in a clay jar which contained year names of four rulers of Larsa, Abi-Sare, Sumu-el, Nur-Adad, and [[Sin-Iddinam]] (1785 BC to 1778 BC). The same team revisted the site in 2019 as part of larger survey in the area, obtaining georeferenced data.<ref>[https://whitelevy.fas.harvard.edu/files/whitelevy/files/al-hussainy_21_article_journal_of_orientalia_vol._91-1_022022.pdf] Abbas, Al-Hussainy. "Glyptic Styles at an Isin-Larsa Minor Settlement: Seals and Seal Impressions from Tell Waresh 2.", Journal of Orientalia, vol. 91, no. 1, 2022</ref><ref>Al-Hussainy, A., de Boer, R., and Jawdat, J., "Tell Waresh 2, Early Old Babylonian Tablets from the Season of Rescue Excavation (1990)", RA 113, pp. 59–69, 2019</ref><ref>Muhammad, A. K., "A Text from the Time of Sumu-El, King of Larsa (1894-
1866 BC) from Tell Warash", Athar Ar-Rafidayn 2/1, 121–132, 2013 (in Arabic)</ref> A final report is now in progress.<ref>[https://whitelevy.fas.harvard.edu/final-report-rescue-excavations-tell-waresh-2-third-river-project-iraq Final Report on the Rescue Excavations at Tell Waresh 2, Third River Project (Iraq) - Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications]</ref>