There was a sizable Neo-Babylonian settlement to the east of the site (later worked by Fuad Safar) so it is uncertain if the Nabonidus brick is in its original location.

It found remains of a large building, a few fragmentary cuneiform tablets (disposition unclear), a figurine (thought to be of the god Nabu) and a damaged baked clay cylinder of Nabonidus.

At the upper level three blackish partly baked tablets (disposition unclear) were found, two with a date of Achaemenid Empire king Darius.

Afterward the site showed at most modest occupation (Neo-Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian on a 30 meter distant low mound), aside from later use as a cemetery.

[1] One researcher, based on the recovered cylinder of Nabonidus, contended that Tell al-Lahm was the site of the 1st millennium BC city of Kisik.

Another researcher based this on the fact that there is thought to have been an E-amas-ku-ga temple of Istar in Kisig which has been proposed as the earlier name for Kisik.

[7][10][11] Based on the possible mention of a "Dur" in the Nabonidus cylinder an epigrapher proposed that the 1st Millennium BC name of the site was Dur-Iakin.

Marduk-apla-iddina II, who is the Merodach-Baladan of the Hebrew Bible, rallied opposition to Sargon, including the Bit-Iakin, at Dur-Iakin, digging a canal to the Euphrates for water.

[18][19] One researcher suggested that the residence of the early 2nd Millennium BC Isin-Larsa period ruler Naplanum was at Kisig and that the city was Amorite.

[23] Sargon II (722–705 BC) awarded andurāru status to "Dēr, Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Larsa, Kullab, Kisik, and Nemed-Laguda".

In the Old Babylonian period, he was equated with Marduk, previously an insignificant local god of Babylon, which resulted in the latter similarly starting to be addressed as a son of Enki.

[28][29] One of the Temple Hymns of Enheduana, daughter of Akkadian Empire ruler Sargon of Akkad included a section dedicated to Kuara and its tutelary god: "City.

House of Asarluhi in Kuara"[30] According to various sources other deities worshiped in Ku'ara included Lugal-eri-saga, Lugal-nita-zi(d) and Ensi-mah (in the Ur III period), (Nin-)ges-zida, and Ninsun.

[31] A tablet from Puzrish-Dagan indicates that only Ninsun, Asalluḫi and Nindamana actually had temples in Ku'ara and suggests that Martu, who Andres Johandi argues might have been an early form of Marduk, was also worshiped there.