| Ancient name | Agarum (Akkadian); Ikaros (Greek); |
| Country | Kuwait |
| Geographical area | Faylaka |
| Coordinates | Latitude: 29° 26' 26" Longitude: 48° 20' 0.5" |
| Coordinates accuracy | certain |
| Type of site | Settlement |
| Deities | Šamaš (sun-god); Inzak of Agarum; Nabû (Akkadian Babylonian sources; archaeology). Apollo; Zeus, Poseidonos Asphaleios, Artemis Soteira (Greek sources, archaeology). |
| Structures | Large temple Small temple Fortress |
| Location and toponomy | The Faylaka isle located in the Arabian Gulf, at 20 km off the eastern coast of Kuwait City. |
| General description | Little isle (14km x 5km); low altitude: 6 m. |
| Chronology | From 5th millenium to pre-Islamic ages: 5th millenium: Obeid civilisation. Middle Bronze (3rd- middle 2nd millenium, Kassite age): Dilmun civilisation. Neo-Babylonian age: pre-hellenistic settlement (Tell-Khazneh). From the end of the 4th to the 2nd century BC: Seleucid empire. Antiochos III raised the isle to the rank of colony (202-203 BC). Part of the Characene kingdom. Christian Syrian Nestorian monastery (7th-9th centuries AD) (al-Quṣur) |
| Classical sources | Strabon, Geography, XVI.3.2. |
| Identification | 1930: identification by Freya Stark with the Ikaros isle of Strabon. |
| Travellers | 18th century: Carsten Niebuhr (1779). |
| Archaeological missions | 1958-1963: Danish mission (Aarhus University); 1974-1975: American mission (John Hopkins University, Baltimore); 1976: Italian misson (Venice); Since 1983: French-Koweiti mission (Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon) |
| Dedication in Greek to Poseidon Asphaleios by Sôteles, the chief of the Greek garrison (3rd century BC). |
| Calvet and Salles 1986 | Calvet, Yves and Salles, Jean-François (eds) 1986. Failaka. Fouilles françaises 1984-1985. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient, 12). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen. |
| Salles 1985 | Salles, Jean-François 1985. Failaka, une île des dieux au large de Koweit. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 129/4: 572-593. |