Ash-sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East No 5 1-2, 2021

Laura Battini is an archaeologist specialised in the Ancient Near East. She is currently a researcher at the French National Centre of Scientific Research (Laboratory PROCLAC, UMR 7192, directed by Thomas Römer). Laura created a new journal for the Ancient Near East (Ash sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East, Archaeopress), and is the editor of the archaeological series Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology.

• Vol 5 No 1 2021 ; The Primates of Susa: Depictions of Monkeys in Stone Statuettes from Elam – Bernardo Urbani and Dionisios Youlatos ; An Ox and a Hut: Notes on an Uruk-Period Cylinder Seal – Agnete W. Lassen ; Notes on Horses and Dogs: Two Special Animals? – Laura Battini ; 1965 Excavations of Amrit – 7th Season (Archives of Nassib Salibi) – Michel al-Maqdissi and Eva Ishaq ; Tracing the Transmission of Power – Andrea Cesaretti and Roberto Dan ; A New Analysis Protocol for the Studying of Ancient Terracottas – Laura Battini ; Vol 5 No 2 2021 ; The Assyrian Stylized Tree: A Date Palm Plantation and Aššurnaṣirpal II’s Stemma – Norma Franklin ; Mechanical Examination of Swords in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age – K. Kopanias, E. Vemou and K. Sidiropoulou ; The first Bronze Age bull-headed lyre from south-east Arabia? Tantalising shell inlays from the third millennium BC (Umm an-Nar) site of al-Tikha, Sultanate of Oman – St J. Simpson ; Appositive Semantic Classification in Sumerian Cuneiform and the Implementation of iClassifier – Gebhard J. Selz