A Cuneiform Tablet of the Early Second Millennium BC

Terqa is the name of an ancient city discovered at the site of Tell Ashara on the banks of the middle Euphrates in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. The single epigraphic find of the second season of excavation is described here: it is a small administrative document of the same type as those from Mari dated to the period of the akkanakku's.