Historical place profile

Tell Leilan

Tell Leilan is situated near the Wadi Jarrah, in the Khabur River basin in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. The ancient names of the site are Shekhna and Shubat-Enlil.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:223856813
Catalogue ID
pleiades:223856813
Place type
archaeological-site, findspot, settlement
Coordinates
36.956709, 41.506705
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Tell Leilan is situated near the Wadi Jarrah, in the Khabur River basin in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. The ancient names of the site are Shekhna and Shubat-Enlil.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Pleiades

Source and reuse

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Research path

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