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Tell Hassuna

a Pleiades place resource

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Tell Hassuna is a settlement of northern Iraq, located in the Nineveh Province approximately 35km south-west of Nineveh. This is the type site for the Hassuna culture of the early sixth millennium B.C.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/130631535

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.464, 42.9635

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Tell Hassuna (6500 BC - 3800 BC)

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Hassuna (English, modern)

Tell Hassuna makes connections with:

None

Tell Hassuna receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

See Also:

Mortensen and Ingholt 1970

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Fuad Safar discovered Tell Hassuna in 1942. Excavations under Seton Lloyd were carried out in 1943 and 1944.

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Tell Hassuna: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/130631535> [accessed: 10 June 2023]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/130631535 |title=Places: 130631535 (Tell Hassuna) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=June 10, 2023 9:31 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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