Adab (modern Bismaya (or Bismya), Wasit Governorate, Iraq) was an ancient Sumerian city between Telloh and Nippur. History Adab was occupied from at least the Early Dynastic period, thru the Akkadian Empire and into the empire of Ur III. While no later archaeological evidence was found at Bismaya, the excavations there were brief and there were later epigraphic references to Adab such as in the Code of Hammurabi. One king of Adab, Lugal-Anne-Mundu,'s listed in the Sumerian King List and's menti… (More on Adab)