Project Publications (1957–2026)

The following bibliography includes works directly produced by the project as well as by other scholars who have worked in the area.

Many of the recent publications can be downloaded from J. Eidem's pages on Academia.edu, Researchgate, or the Pisa repository Arpi.

  • Amin, A., Ismail, B., Eidem, J. & Coppini, C. (2025). In Winter on the Lake. The 2023 Sulaymania-Raparin Survey in the Dokan Dam Salvage Zone. Mesopotamia 59: 109-128.
  • Coppini, C. & Eidem, J. (2026). Tell Shemshara. The Early 2nd Mill. Sequence. in C. Coppini, V. Oselini (eds), Pottery Traditions and Material Culture in 2nd Millennium Northern Mesopotamia: Contacts and New Horizons in the Land between the Tigris and the Zagros, Münster: MARRU (in press).
  • Eidem, J. (1985). A Note on the Pulse Crops at Tell Shemshara. Bulletin of Sumerian Agriculture Vol. 2: 141-43.
  • Eidem, J. (1985). News from the Eastern Front: The Evidence from Tell Shemshara. Iraq 47: 87-107.
  • Eidem, J. (1992). The Shemshara Archives 2. The Administrative Texts. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy.
  • Eidem, J. (2012). Dokan. An archaeological salvage project in Iraq, 1956-60. NINO/NIT Annual Report 2011: 12-19.
  • Eidem, J. (2013). Back to Rania. NINO/NIT Annual Report 2012: 2-11.
  • Eidem, J. (2015). The NINO Archaeological Project on the Rania Plain 2013-2014. NINO/NIT Annual Report 2013-14: 2-9.
  • Eidem, J. (2017). Dams and Damage: Heritage loss and second phase salvage on the Rania Plain (Kurdish Region of Iraq). NINO/NIT Annual Report 2015: 2-13.
  • Eidem, J. (2018). Pakute: an Assyrian 'Ghost Castle' on the Rania Plain. As-Sharq 2: 30-42.
  • Eidem, J. (2020a). Before and After the Flood. Archaeology on the Rania Plain Then and Now. in J. Eidem (ed.), Zagros Studies. Proceedings of the NINO Jubilee Conference 2014 and Other Research on the Zagros Region, PIHANS 130. Leuven: Peeters, 99-130.
  • Eidem, J. (2020b). Back to Shemshara. NINO Excavations 2012-15. in J. Eidem (ed.), Zagros Studies. Proceedings of the NINO Jubilee Conference 2014 and Other Research on the Zagros Region, PIHANS 130. Leuven: Peeters, 157-195.
  • Eidem, J. (2023). Zagros Notes: Gutium and Kakmum. in G. Matini, F. Nebiolo, P. Negri Scafa, S. Viaggio (eds), ūmi annûti luhsusamma ana dāriš aj amši "voglio pensare a questi giorni, e per sempre non dimenticare!". Studi in onore di Claudio Saporetti per il suo 85esimo compleanno, Rome: WriteUp, 79-90.
  • Eidem, J. & Chelazzi, F. (2026). Filling the 'Black Hole' in the Rania Plain (NE Iraq) 1. The Cases of 1780 BCE and 1959 CE. EVO XLVIII (in press).
  • Eidem, J. & Coppini, C. (2020). A Third Millennium Stone Plaque from Gird Maiwizha (Rania Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan). Ash-Sharq 4: 239-252.
  • Eidem, J. & Giannessi, D. (2021). Thrashing out Late Chalcolithic Trajectories in the Zagros Foothills. Anatolica 47: 321-342.
  • Eidem, J. & Giannessi, D. (2023). Il Pisa Archaeological Project nella Piana di Rania. in Tesori dell'Iraq. Le Missioni Archeologiche Italiane nella Terra tra i due Fiumi, Rome: Treccani, 206-211.
  • Eidem, J. & Læssøe, J. (2001). The Shemshara Archives 1. The Letters. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy.
  • Eidem, J., Merlino, M., Mariotti, E. & Karim Saleh, R. (2019). Tell Shemshara 2018: Emerging and Floating Evidence. Ash-Sharq 3: 21-32.
  • Fincke, J. & Eidem, J. (2023). A Middle Babylonian Tablet with Alamdimmû ahû-omens from the Rania Plain dating to Kurigalzu (I/II) and its Implications for the Tradition of Alamdimmû and other omen series. EVO XLVI: 181-212.
  • Hansen, H. H. (1961). The Kurdish Woman's Life. Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark.
  • Ingholt, H. (1957). The Danish Dokan Expedition. Sumer 13: 214-215.
  • Larsen, M. T. (1986). The Shemshara Archives. Sumer 42: 36-39.
  • Læssøe, J. (1957). An Old Babylonian Archive Discovered at Tell Shemshara. Sumer 13: 216-218.
  • Læssøe, J. (1959a). The Shemshara Tablets, A Preliminary Report. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy.
  • Læssøe, J. (1959b). Akkadian Annakum: "Tin" or "Lead"? AcOr 24: 83-94.
  • Læssøe, J. (1959c). The Bazmusian Tablets. Sumer 15: 15-18.
  • Læssøe, J. (1960). The Second Shemshara Archive. Sumer 16: 12-19.
  • Læssøe, J. (1963). People of Ancient Assyria. London.
  • Læssøe, J. (1965). IM.62100: A Letter from Tell Shemshara. AS 16: 189-196.
  • Læssøe, J. (1966). Det Første Assyriske Imperium, Et Aspekt [The First Assyrian Empire]. Copenhagen.
  • Læssøe, J. (1968). The Quest for the Country of *Utum. JAOS 88 (= W. W. Hallo (ed.), Essays in Memory of E. A. Speiser, New Haven), 120-122.
  • Læssøe, J. (1971). An Aspect of Assyrian Archaeology. in M. Lurker (ed.), In Memoriam Eckhard Unger, Baden-Baden: V. Koerner, 189-95.
  • Læssøe, J. (1985). Šiksabbum, an Elusive City. OrNS 54: 182-188.
  • Læssøe, J. & Jacobsen, T. (1990). Šiksabbum Again. JCS 42: 127-178.
  • Læssøe, J. & Knudsen, E. (1963). An Old Babylonian Letter from a Hurrian Environment. ZA 55: 131-37.
  • Marf, D. & Eidem, J. (2020). A Lion-throned Tower from Tell Basmusian. in J. Eidem (ed.), Zagros Studies. Proceedings of the NINO Jubilee Conference 2014 and Other Research on the Zagros Region, PIHANS 130. Leuven: Peeters, 93-97.
  • Marf, D. & Eidem, J. (2024). First Archaeological Hints: Early Birds in Kurdistan. in G. Miniaci, C. Greco, P. del Vesco, M. Manchini, C. Alù (eds), Egypt in Ancient and Modern Tales, Travels and Explorations. Studies presented to Marilina Betrò, Pisa: Pisa University Press, 95-108.
  • Mariotti, E. & Merlino, M. (2020). Where Eagles Fly. Ancient Mountain Defenses east of Rania. As-Sharq 3: 54-68.
  • Matthews, R., Matthews, W., Raheem, K. R. & Richardson, A. (eds) (2020). The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent. Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan. Oxford: Oxbow.
  • Mortensen, P. (1970). Tell Shimshara, The Hassuna Period. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy.
  • Nieuwenhuyse, O. & Robert, B. (2020). Shimshara Revisited. Hassuna-Samarra Interactions on the Rania Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan. in J. Eidem (ed.), Zagros Studies. Proceedings of the NINO Jubilee Conference and Other Research on the Zagros Region, PIHANS 130, Leuven: Peeters, 19-34.
  • Sykes, M. (1904). Dar-ul-Islam. A Record of a Journey through Ten of the Asiatic Provinces of Turkey. London.
  • Uildriks, M. (2020). On the Edge. The Destruction of Archaeological Heritage in the Flood Zone of Lake Dukan, Kurdistan. in J. Eidem (ed.), Zagros Studies. Proceedings of the NINO Jubilee Conference and Other Research on the Zagros Region, PIHANS 130, Leuven: Peeters, 131-155.