Acknowledgements

We are enormously grateful to a number of institutions and people who have supported the development and the results of this project and happily acknowledge our debt to them below:

The Staff of the General Directorate of Antiquities of the Kurdish Regional Government of Iraq

Mr. Abubaker Othman Zendin/Malawat (General Director until 2018)

Mr. Kaify Ali (General Director).

The Staff of the Directorate of Erbil

Mr. Nader Babakr (Director of the Directorate of Antiquities of Erbil)

The Department of the Antiquity Service at Koya

Mr. Sarkawt Sofy (Manager until 2019)

Mr. Waheb Jaketi (Manager)

Mr. Nyaz Azeez

Mr. Hemin Naman Kawes

Koya University:

Dr. Wali Mohamed Hamad (President until 2022)

Dr. Mohammed Haseeb Sedeeq Zangana (President)

Dr. Haydar Lashukri Khudur (History Department, Vice President for Scientific and Post Graduate Affairs until 2022)

Dr. Kameran Mohammed Jalal Majeed (History Department)

Dr. Hoshmand Ali Mahmood (History Department)