Foreword Introduction - Nathalie Kallas Session 3 -- Visual and Textual Forms of Communication Meaning and Meaningfulness in the Visual Arts: The Akkadian Legacy in the Ur III Period - Marian H. Feldman Sexuation of animals' bodies in the bullae from Qasr-I Abu Nasr - Delphine Poinsot Generations of Writing: The Secondary Inscriptions of Darius' tacara at Persepolis - Olivia Ramble A few insights into the variety of interactions between texts and diagrams in Old Babylonian mathematics - Adeline Reynaud Chariots, Thrones, and Emblems. Visual/Material Bonds in Old Babylonian Legal Practice - Elisa Roßberger When Horses and Onagers Collide: The Use of Constraining Force in the Neo-Assyrian Reliefs - Margaux Spruyt Up/down, close/far, front/back: the conceptualization of the dynamics of power in Hittite texts - Marta Pallavidini Apotropaic representations on Late Bronze Age ring seals - Benedetta Bellucci Seal-Impressed Vessels at Hama, Syria (c. 2500-2000 BC) - Agnese Vacca, Valentina Tumolo, Georges Mouamar and Stephen Lumsden Potmarks on the Lebanese coast: A medium of communication in the Early Bronze Age - Metoda Persin Personal Religion in the Ramesside Period from the Deir el-Medina Votive Stelae: A Case for the Study of Iconography - Iria Souto Castro Texts, scenes and rituals to preserve the memory of the deceased in private tombs at the end of the 18th Dynasty in Thebes - María Silvana Catania The transmission of priestly science in ancient Egyptian temples of the Graeco-Roman period: The case study of the sacred trees* - Federica Pancin Session 7 -The Future of the Past. Archaeologists and Historians in Cultural Heritage Studies Codifying culture: The making of Phoenician style - Lamia Sassine Come, Tell Me Where You Live! Perceptions of Local Antiquity and Cultural Awareness in the Region of Koya - Cinzia Pappi Session 8 - Produce, Consume, Repeat. History and Archaeology of Ancient Near Eastern Economies Making new sense of ancient economies. Markets, networks, and social orders in the pre-Islamic Near East - Eivind Heldaas Seland Deciphering the Skills of the Prehistoric Painting Technique: Case Study of the Painted Pottery of the 5th Millennium BCE from Tall-e Bakun A (Fars province, Iran) - Takehiro Miki Persian Female Weavers in the Persepolis Economy - Yazdan Safaee Shops in Ancient Berytus: New Data from Old Excavations - Hassan El-Hajj Viticulture in the Roman Colony of Berytus: Economic Considerations - Naseem Raad.