Tell el Fakhariya

Tell Fekheriye (often spelled as Tell el-Fakhariya or Tell Fecheriye, among other variants), is an ancient site in the Khabur River basin in the Al Hasakah Governorate of northern Syria. It is securely identified as the site of Sikkan, attested since c. 2000 BC. Sikkan was part of the Aramaean kingdom of Bit Bahiani in the early 1st millennium BC. In the area several mounds, called tells, can be found in close proximity: Tell Fekheriye, Ra's al-'Ayn, and Tell Halaf, site of the Aramean and Neo-Assyrian city of Guzana. During the excavation the Tell Fekheriye bilingual inscription was discovered at the site, which provides the source of information about Hadad-yith'i.