Tell al-Hawa is an ancient Near East archaeological site on the North Jazira Plain of northern Iraq, near the border with modern-day Syria and just west of the Tigris river.

Tell al-Hawa was excavated as part of a regional rescue archaeology program resulting from the completion of the Mosul Dam and the subsequent expansion of irrigated agriculture.

[4] The site was excavated in three seasons from 1986 to 1988 by a British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq team led by Warwick Ball and Tony Wilkinson as part of the North Jazira project triggered by the construction of the Mosul Dam.

Three areas were excavated on top of the main mound AA (to the east), AB (to the southeast), and AC (to the west), each with a number of small trenches.

Finds included mace heads (one of serpentine), cylinder seals, frit masks, a bronze bracelet, and a large number of beads.

In the lower town, a single sounding, Trench LP, was put in to the east of the main mound and west of the modern village and finds included obsidian blades and a clay sealing.

[5][6][7][8] A number of inscribed clay cones (sikkatu) were found at the site marking the rebuilding of the temple of Adad by the Neo-Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser III.

Occupation in the Mitanni/Middle Assyrian period through the Neo-Assyrian was modest and appears to have largely as a cultic site, possibly becoming a small provincial capital toward the end.