Tell Beydar

Tell Beydar (also Tall Beydar and Tell Baydar) is an Ancient Near Eastern archaeological site along the Khabur river in the modern Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria about 30 kilometers north of the modern city of Hasake. It is connected by road to Al-Darbasiyah on the Turkish border in the north. In the mid-third millennium BC it was the city of Nabada which was a provincial center under the city of Nagar (Tell Brak). It is known to have contained 5 large temples (labeled A-E) in the city center (covering 16.5% of the area there) in that period. While it is not known with certainty what deities were worshiped in these temples, the god Šumugan has been suggested as one of them. In recent years domestic construction has been encroaching at the site.