Tell Halaf
The site is located near the city of Ra's al-'Ayn in the fertile valley of the Khabur River (Nahr al-Khabur), close to the modern border with Turkey. The name "Tell Halaf" is a local Aramaic placename, "tell" meaning "hill", and "Tell Halaf" meaning "made of former city"; what its original inhabitants called their settlement is not known.