Thanks are due to the National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia for granting us the permission to undertake archaeological investigations at Tsiteli Gorebi 5; to the Lagodekhi Regional Department of the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth for inviting us to work in the region, to the Lagodekhi Municipality for facilitating our work in many ways; and to the Italian Embassy in Tbilisi for their constant support to other activities.
We are very grateful to Mrs. Mariam Inanashvili (Director of the Sighnaghi Museum), to Mr. Goghita Bejashvili (Director of the Gurjaani Museum) and to Mrs. Lali Guraspauli (Director of the Dedoplitskaro Museum), who allowed us to visit the reserve collections of these museum in the Kakheti region and to consult their inventory books. A special thank is due to Mrs. Mariam Inanashvili for the effort she put in trying to locate the artefacts from the old Tsiteli Gorebi excavations.
We thank Iulon and Davit Gagoshidze (Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi), as well as Dimitri Ramishvili (Director of the Kareli Museum) for allowing access to the find from the Aradetis Orgora and Doghlauri excavations stored in Tbilisi and, respectively, in Kareli. We are grateful to prof. Davit Lordkipanidze (Director, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi) and dr. Mindia Jalabadzde (Georgian National Museum) for allowing us to analyse and take samples from beads of vitreous materials of the Kura-Araxes period from sites in the Shida Kartli region.
Finally, we thank Mariam Eloshvili and Levan Losaberidze for inviting us to undertake some preliminary work at a kurgan field in the Gardabani area they discovered in the course of a survey in 2019.
The 2021 field season of the Georgian-Italian Lagodekhi Archaeological expedition was funded by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Fondo Ateneo Scavi Archeologici 2020-2021 and DSU department funds) and Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (Contributi missioni archeologiche, antropologiche e etnologiche italiane all’estero 2021).
