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Koya Civilization Museum Kurdistan - Iraq
Manager & Archaeologist
Nyaz Azeez Awmar
Map of Iraq and Erbil Governorate: location of Study Area Koya
Qshla Koysinjaq This structure of the Ottoman period from the middle of the 19th century is located in the south west of the region of Koya.
Koya Civilization Museum Koya Museum was founded in 2003, and it contains two different parts in Qshla koya:
1- Civilization
2- Heritag
Objects in the collection in the Museum
• Tablets:
• Inscription script cuneiform, 2000 BC.
Pottery period – Halaf 6500-5500 BC. -Ubaid 5500-4000 BC.– Uruk 4000-3100 BC.
Big jar and small jar, the Assyrian period and Islamic period
Cylinder Ssals Middle Assyrian period 1500-911 BC.
Special pottery
Jewels - Earrings - Bracelets
Documents from the Ottoman period
Coins Islamic period and before Islamic period
Plate and Beaker
Working all the day at the Museum
Satu Qala Tell
• Satu qala is located approximately 70 km southeast of Erbil and 25 km south of koya.
• The valley in which the site is located is relatively flat and drained in part by a wadi running west of the site.
• The site on the right bank of the lower zab, between the towns of Dukan and Taq Taq.
Excavation in the Tell Satu Qala Operation A • The fieldwork on the northwestern slope of the
mound’s summit during the first two seasons. • Aimed to explore the sequence of occupational
phases of the site. In 2010 excavations were carried out in the southern half of square 1010/690.
Collection from the Excavation of Tell Satu Qala
Glazed Brick SQ 10-6 (Measurements : 25.5 19.0 8.0 cm).
Work at the Tomb
Archaeology Survey Koya (ASK-2016-2017)
In September 2016 I took part to the Archaeological Survey of Koya Project (University of Innsbruck, Austria) in Koya (Erbil, Iraq) as a pottery specialist.
Archaeology Survey Koya (ASK-2017)
ASK 2016 Photography of the pottery
Nyaz Azeez Awmar Manager & Archaeologist
Koya Civilization Museum
Kurdistan, Iraq
nyaz.azeez@gmail.com
Thank You
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