Daniele Morandi Bonacossi - Hasan Ahmad Qasim - Costanza Coppini - Katia Gavagnin - Elisa Girotto - Marco Iamoni - Cristina Tonghini 2018. The Italian-Kurdish Excavations at Gir-e Gomel in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Preliminary Report on the 2017 and 2018 field seasons. Mesopotamia 53, 67-162. By daniele morandi bonacossi

https://www.academia.edu/40066905/Daniele_Morandi_Bonacossi_Hasan_Ahmad_Qasim_Costanza_Coppini_Katia_Gavagnin_Elisa_Girotto_Marco_Iamoni_Cristina_Tonghini_2018_The_Italian_Kurdish_Excavations_at_Gir_e_Gomel_in_the_Kurdistan_Region_of_Iraq_Preliminary_Report_on_the_2017_and_2018_field_seasons_Mesopotamia_53_67_162?nav_from=33cd03af-cbf2-4b22-85cc-498fd34e09c0 The article presents the preliminary results of the Italian-Kurdish excavation project carried out by the University of Udine and the Directorate of Antiquities of Duhok at the site of Gir-e Gomel (Kurdistan Region of Iraq). From at least the mid-3rd millennium BC onwards, Gomel was the central site of the entire Navkur Plain, a very fertile and well-watered region on the route linking Arbail and the Greater Zab Valley with the Upper Tigris region to the north of Nineveh. The Eastern Tigris plains between the modern city of Duhok and the Greater Zab have never been the object of a target-oriented archaeological excavation aimed at establishing a stratigraphic reference sequence for this still under-explored archaeological landscape and investigating diachronically the development of the region’s material culture. With this purpose – and the aim of exploring the character and function of this important site on a local and regional scale, investigating the role it played in the region’s cultural and socio-economic processes – Gir-e Gomel has become the subject of extensive archaeological excavations as from 2017 and 2018. The main results of the first excavation seasons are discussed in the following article.