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Not to be confused with Tel al-Hawa.

Tell al-Hawa

Shown within Iraq
Coordinates	36°48′10″N 42°28′05″E
Type	settlement
History
Founded	4th millennium BC
Periods	Uruk, Ninevite 5, Akkadian
Site notes
Excavation dates	1986-1888
Archaeologists	Warwick Ball, Tony Wilkinson
Condition	Ruined
Ownership	Public
Public access	Yes

Tell al-Hawa is an ancient Near East archaeological site

See also

• Cities of the ancient Near East
• Chronology of the ancient Near East
• Proto-cuneiform

External links

Category:Archaeological sites in Iraq

• Strata III (subdivided into IIIA, IIIB, and IIIC) - handmade greyware pottery. The oldest level, IIIA is minimal and ill-defined and its principle value is in making clear the demarcation between Strata IIB and Strata IIIB. The final and most recent layer at Tepe Hissar, IIIC, is also very thin and the buildings are few and insignificant however burials from that layer are "extraordinarily well-equipped" and the buried hoards on Treasure Hill was particularly rich in finds. Strata IIIB was the principle occupation layer including some structures destroyed by conflagration. One, called the Burned Building (BB) was, unlike the others, burned while occupied and still retaining its possessions. This occurrence provided the excavators with a number of skeletal remains and finds as well as baking the mudbrick walls. The BB was the best constructed and elaborate building in Strata IIIB with six rooms (with several stairways leading to the roof), gateway passage, courtyard, outside latrine, and a tower at the door. The excavators declared it the residence of the towns most prominent resident and not a cultic site. Finds in the main room included numerous lapis lazuli, chalcedony, gold, and silver ornaments, copper daggers (one with a grip of silver bands), and large copper vessels. A storeroom contained a number of sizable lidded storage vessels as well as a copper mattock and two copper stamp seals. A large numbers of flint arrowheads were found inside and outside of the BB. Baked clay and lithic finds from Strata III were similar to those of Strata II while metal finds were much more numerous and varied, primarily of copper and silver. Burials excavated were 106 of Strata IIIA, 270 of Strata IIIB and 53 of Strata IIIC. After Strata IIIC the site was abandoned.