Zabala (Sumer)

Zabala 𒍝𒈽𒀕𒆠
Tell el-Buzekh
Zabala Location within Iraq
31°44′36″N 45°52′36″E
Type	Settlement
Periods	Jemdet Nasr, Early Dynastic, Sargonic, Ur III, Isin-Larsa
Location	Dhi Qar Province, Iraq
Region	Mesopotamia
Site notes
Excavation dates	2001, 2002
Archaeologists	Haider Al-Subaihawi

Foundation figurine of Warad-Sin for Inanna, found at Zabalam.

Zabala, also Zabalam (𒍝𒈽𒀕𒆠 zabalam^ki, Sumerian - MUŠ₃.UNU^ki, modern Tell Ibzeikh (also Tell el-Buzekh or Tell Ibzaykh), Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq) was a city of ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia, located in what is now the Dhi Qar governorate in Iraq. In early archaeology this location was also called Tel el-Buzekh. Locally it is called Tell Bzikh. Zabala was at the crossing of the ancient Iturungal and Ninagina canals, 10 kilometers to the northwest of Umma. The city's deity was Inanna of Zabala. A cuneiform tablet from Zabala contains one of only a few metro-mathematical tables of area measures from the Early Dynastic Period.