Me-Turan

Me-Turan (also Mê-Turan) is an archaeological site in Diyala Governorate Iraq comprising the modern Tell Haddad and the two mounds of Tell al-Sib (also Tell as-Sib).

After the end of the Old Bablyonian period the city lay fallow until Neo-Assyrian times, excepting some Kassite era residencial housing.

At the lowest layer, above virgin soil, a jar was found with 34 tablets containing year names of three kings of Eshnunna, from before the area was conquered by Babylon.

Finds from the Old Babylonian period include a duck weight, two extispicy liver models, and large number of cuneiform tablets and fragments.

One of the mathematical tablets (IM 95771) includes a problem about a trapezoidal water reservoir divided into five sections of equal length.

Duck shaped weights in the typical mesopotamian fashion, made from Bronze, Hematite or Magnetite)
Akkadian language clay sheep liver models written in a local dialect, recovered from the palace at Mari , dated to the 19th or 18th century BC. Artefacts similar to this was found in Me-Turan