Talira was the administrative center of Naduma. Excavation has identified a fortified core, palace district, distributed granary system, market quarter, domestic neighborhoods, and a group of buildings east of the palace now collectively known as the Questioners’ House.nnThe earliest phase of Chamber T-17 contains no clear altar, offering pit, or cult installation. Ritual architecture appears only in later phases. This sequence is central to current debate because it suggests that Naru was not necessarily treated as a deity at the beginning of the phenomenon.