In the 1850s a French team led by Jules Oppert visited the area and examined the nearby site of Tell Muhattat reporting that it consisted of the remains of a single large structure from the Parthian or Sassanian periods.

[6] Dilbat was excavated briefly in 1879 by Hormuzd Rassam (as Tel-Daillam), who recovered three minor cuneiform tablets at the site, mainly from the Neo-Babylonian period.

Two fragmentary cuneiform tablets were found and, in an Isin-Larsa context, an inscribed brick of Ur III ruler Amar-Sin.

Work began on the eastern mound near the earlier Sounding C and a Kassite period temple to the city god was uncovered.

"[15]Though Dilbat itself has only so far been lightly excavated by archaeologists, numerous tablets from there have made their way to the antiquities market over the years as the result of unauthorized digging.

Urash was regarded as the father of Nanaya, a goddess of love from the entourage of Inanna,[20] as well as the minor underworld deity Lagamal,[21] worshiped in Susa as an attendant of Inshushinak moreso than in Mesopotamia.

[22] Urash was also the husband of Ninegal ("lady of the palace"), and they had a joint temple,[23] as attested by an Assyrian account of its renovation undertaken on the orders of Ashur-etil-ilani.

[25] The Neo-Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar II (605–562 BC) states in a text "I renovated the E’ibbi’Anum of Dilbat for my lord Uraš".