or near the north of Mesopotamia. On the basis of significant archival accounts,93 we can assert with confidence the existence of a second-millennium B.C. “northern” Ur located either (1) somewhere in close proximity to the Mediterranean coast, or (2) somewhere inland between the upper Habur River and the Tigris River near Nineveh.94 It is probable that there were more than two northern sites with this name, but it is not possible there were fewer than two sites. Of course, whether any of these sites