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Sippar
Evidence shows that Sippar was occupied from the Uruk IV period, although there were actually two cities named Sippar, now known as the archaeological mounds of Tell Abu Habbah and ed-Der.

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Archaeologists worldwide were having fits in the first decade of the twenty-first century because numerous sites in modern Iran and the surrounding region were giving up evidence of once being home to a long-lived culture with a vast network of societies which constituted some of the first cities.

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Larak
The location of Larak or Larag has not been identified, but the city is believed to have been sited on the west bank of the Tigris, to the east of Kish and with a patron deity in the form of Pabilsag, god of the trees.

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Second of the early city states to be mentioned in the Antediluvian section of the Sumerian king list, Bad-tibira was situated on the Iturungal Canal, below Umma and to the close north of Uruk and Larsa, today generally linked to the archaeological site of Tell Madineh.

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This was the crossover point between prehistory and the threshold of early urban civilisation, named after the site at which pottery from the period was first discovered, Tell al-'Ubaid in southern Mesopotamia.

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