More inscriptions and an archive containing over 100 cuneiform tablets were found, dating to the Old Babylonian and Middle Assyrian Periods.

[5][6][7][8][9] The city was mentioned in 18th century BC as a regional center named Ṭābatum in the tablets of the kingdom of Mari,[10] and was destroyed by Samsu-Iluna of Babylon.

[15] Marê was mentioned in association with Raṣappu which was likely located in the southern and eastern slopes of the Sinjar Mountains.

[16] However, "the land of Mari" is mentioned in the Hurrian Mitannian archive of Nuzi, and tablets dating to the 15th and 14th centuries BC from Tell Taban itself reveal that the inhabitants were Amorites.

[16] The dynasty could have been Amorite in origin but adopted Hurrian royal names to appease the Mitannian empire.