Location | Nineveh Province, Iraq |
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Region | Mesopotamia |
Coordinates | 36°27′50.4000″N 42°57′48.6000″E / 36.464000000°N 42.963500000°E |
Type | tell |
Length | 200 meters |
Width | 150 meters |
Height | 7 meters |
History | |
Material | mud-brick |
Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 1943, 1944 |
Archaeologists | S. Lloyd |
Tell Hassuna is a tell, or settlement mound, in the Nineveh Province (Iraq), about 35km south-west of Nineveh. It is the type site for the Hassuna culture (early sixth millennium BCE).