Known. The writing gave this place its old name, Mardama.
The tablets were found at Bassetki, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, on the dry plain east of the Tigris. There are 92 of them, dated to 1300 to 1200 BC. They were sealed in clay and hidden in a pot in a palace. A reader of the script found the name Mardaman, the Assyrian word for Mardama. The tablets say the city belonged to the Assyrian Empire and that a governor sat there. The page says the city is thought to have begun between 2800 and 2650 BC.
The page does not say what is still argued.