Tepe Gawra

Tepe Gawra

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Shown within Iraq
Location	Nineveh Province, Iraq
Region	Northern Mesopotamia
Coordinates	36°29′44″N 43°15′37″E / 36.49556°N 43.26028°E / 36.49556; 43.26028
Type	tell
Site notes
Excavation dates	1849, 1927, 1932-1938
Archaeologists	Austen Layard, E.A. Speiser, Charles Bache

Tepe Gawra is an ancient Mesopotamian settlement 15 miles NNE of Mosul in northwest Iraq that was occupied between 5000 and 1500 BC. It is roughly a mile from the site of Nineveh and 2 miles E of the site of Khorsabad. It contains remains from the Halaf period, the Ubaid period, and the Uruk period (4000–3100 BC). Tepe Gawra contains material relating to the Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period c. 5,500–5,000 BC.

Tell Arpachiyah is a contemporary Neolithic site nearby. At Yarim Tepe, located about 70km to the west of Gawra, the uppermost levels of the Halaf cultural deposits are analogous to the Arpachiyah levels TT-6 to TT-8, and Tepe Gawra levels XVIII-XX.^[1]