More than 30 contributions are devoted to the memory of the Near Eastern Archaeologist Samuel M. Paley (1941-2010). Studies are devoted to the archaeology of Cyprus, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq as well as to archaeological methods and technologies. A special focus is given to seals and iconography and the modern reception of the Ancient Near East.

Cyprus, Israel and Turkey A.S. Gilbert / I.J. Cohn: Speculations on the Original Function of Phlamoudhi-Vounari M.T. Horowitz: Exploring Regional Development in Late Bronze I Cyprus: Phlamoudhi-Vounari and the Karpass Peninsula R.R. Stieglitz: Looking for Leucolla S.L. Braunstein: Children and Bangles in the Late Second-Millennium B.C.E. Southern Levant A.B. Snyder: Working with Sam: From New York City to Tel el Ifshar, Ashurnasirpal II's Northwest Palace, Alisar Höyük, and Beyond Sh.R. Steadman and Gregory McMahon: Sam Paley at Çadır Höyük 1993-2008: Excavating the Second Millennium BCE A.N. Bilgen: Seyitömer Mound Excavations L. Kealhofer, Peter Grave, and A. Nejat Bilgen: Economy and Power: Achaemenid Influence on Regional Economies in Western Anatolia O.W. Muscarella: Megaron 3: The 8th/Early 7th Century B.C. Palace of the Phrygian Kings at Gordion R.L. Gorny: Reconsidering the Position of Mt. Puškurunuwa and Other Issues of Central Anatolian Geography Assyria and Assyromania F. Pedde: From Cyprus to Assyria: Earrings in Middle Assyrian Assur: A Connection to the West R. Goodman: Tell Billa’s Bull Pendant: A Connection to Middle Assyrian Assur J.F. Osborne: Representing Cities in Syro-Anatolian and Neo-Assyrian Art D. Nadali: Timing Space/Spacing Time: Narrative Principles in Assurbanipal Hunt Reliefs of Room C in the North Palace of Nineveh F. Pedde: The Assur Project in Berlin: A Look Back at Twenty Years of Research J. Edgeworth Reade / D.H. Sanders: In Pursuit of the ‘Missing’ Central Palace of Tiglathpileser III at Nimrud Archaeology and New Techniques J.S. Smith: Recreating Ancient Architecture for Museum Exhibitions L.K. Harrison and Aycan Gürbüz: A 3D Visualization of the Ancient Built Environment of Seyitömer Höyük, Turkey W. Beex: Some useful Graphical Computer Techniques for Old Archaeology with New Techniques Iconography, Seals and Inscriptions H. Pittman: King/Man in a (War) Cart: Intercultural Theme or Appropiated Image? D. Stronach: On the Birth of Early Achaemenid Monumental Art at Pasargadae E. Genç: Objects of Anatolian Origin in the Buffalo Museum of Science B.A. Ault: A Seal for Sam: A Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal from Halieis, Greece J.A. Lerner: Preliminary Remarks on an Achaemenid Seal with a Phrygian Inscription R.D. Woodard: Linear B o-pi-ti-ni-ja-ta, Homeric ἐπιτιμήτωρ and Labiovelar Palatalization Jewish Studies S.R. Balderman: My Memories of Dr. Samuel Paley, Teacher, Leader and Friend F.T. Schipper: Circumcision and Epispasm: The Myth of the ‘Jewish Weight’ Modern Reception B. Pedde: The ‘New Babylon’: New York Architecture in the 1920s and Early 1930s M.G. Micale: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Architecture in Modern and Contemporary Culture: Between Memory and Fake Tradition B. Pedde: Gilgamesh in Modern Art: The German Painter Willi Baumeister and the Ancient Near East Contemporary History and Archaeological Heritage S.L. Dyson: Protest and Protection: William Dinsmoor’s War W. Börner: S.A.F.E. Nimrud – CHNT featuring Samuel M. Paley (2003-2009) E. Zubrow: Archaeological Heritage: A Human Right M. Mooke: Dreams in Sound