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It is 14 km from the city center of Batman. It is located 1 km southwest of Oymataş Village and at the point where Batman Stream meets Tigris River. The mound consists of two hills, Kuriki Höyük 1 and Kuriki Höyük 2, approximately 70m apart. We learn the first information about the 250x150 m mound from the surveys conducted by G. Algaze and his team in 1988 as part of the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP). The first excavations were carried out in 2009 under the presidency of the Mardin Museum Directorate within the scope of the Ilısu and HEPP Project.

In the settlement where four phases were identified, the early layer is the Late Chalcolithic Age, which was founded on the main soil. B.C. This layer, dated to the 4th millennium BC, is represented by houses with stone foundations, grain warehouses and burial structures built in an adjacent order. After a long time, the settlement was resettled in the Iron Age. B.C. This second settlement, dated to the 1st millennium BC, spreads over a larger area. The existence of this period is especially evidenced by fluted bowls dating to the First Iron Age and sherds reflecting the Assyrian tradition. Architectural remains of the period are limited to stone floor and wall fragments and clay plastered silos. The third phase of the mound covers the Part-Roman Period. Remains of this period are represented by large administrative buildings, residences and a burial ground. The last settlement phase consists of mixed fillings from the Middle Ages to the present.