Lorenzo Verderame is professor of Assyriology at "Sapienza" University of Rome. His publications include an edition of the first six chapters of the astrological series Enūma Anu Enlil (Le tavole I-VI della serie astrologica Enūma Anu Enlil, 2002) and overviews of Sumerian and Akkadian literature (Letterature dell'antica Mesopotamia, Firenze Le Monnier Università, 2016) and civilization (Introduzione alle culture dell'antica Mesopotamia, Milano Mondadori Education, 2017). He is the epigraphist in chief of Italian Archaeological Expedition to Tell Zurghul, ancient Nigin (Iraq). Agnès Garcia-Ventura is currently lecturer at the Universitàt Autònoma de Barcelona. She is the editor of several volumes, including Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East (with Saana Svärd, Eisenbrauns and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) and What's in a Name? Work Force and Job Categories in the Ancient Near East (Ugarit-Verlag, 2018).

• Foreword, Paul Collins Preliminary Considerations, Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame Visual ArtsPedro Azara and Marc MarínMesopotamia in Miró. Miró in Mesopotamia Jean M. EvansCase Studies in the Popular Reception of the Tell Asmar Sculpture Hoard Silvana Di PaoloImages of Ruins as Metaphorical Places of Transformation: The Case of Persepolis Performing ArtsKerstin Droá-KrupeArtaserse: An Ancient Oriental Ruler on Modern Opera Stages? Valeska HartmannWhen Imitation Became Reality: The Historical Pantomime Sardanapal (1908) at the Royal Opera of Berlin Daniele Federico RosaYe Go to Thy Abzu: How Norwegian Black Metal Used Mesopotamian References, Where It Took Them from, and How It Usually Got Them Wrong Film and Television Kevin McGeough"Babylon's Last Bacchanal": Mesopotamia and the Near East in Epic Biblical Cinema Eva MillerHe Who Saw the Stars: Retelling Gilgamesh in Star Trek: The Next Generation Lorenzo VerderameEvil from an Ancient Past and the Archaeology of the Beyond: An Analysis of the Movies The Exorcist (1973) and The Evil Dead (1981) Novels and ComicsJana Myná?ová and Pavel Ko?ínekThe Ancient Near East in Czech Comics and Popular Culture: The Case of Jáchym and the Printer's Devil Luigi TurriGilgamesh, The (Super)Hero Francesco PomponioMystery Literature and Assyriology Ryan WintersAncient Aliens, Modern Cosmologies: Zecharia Sitchin and the Transformation of Mesopotamian Myth Archaeologist in the MiddleDavide NadaliThe (In)visibility of Archaeology Juan-Luis Montero FenollósImagining the Tower of Babel in the Twenty-First Century: Is a New Interpretation of the Ziggurat of Babylon Possible? Silvia FestucciaAthletic Disciplines in the Ancient Near East: Representation and Reconstruction Afterword. Memory and Memories: From the Ancient Near East to the Modern WestFrances Pinnock Contributors Subject Index

Lorenzo Verderame is professor of Assyriology at "Sapienza" University of Rome. His publications include an edition of the first six chapters of the astrological series Enūma Anu Enlil (Le tavole I-VI della serie astrologica Enūma Anu Enlil, 2002) and overviews of Sumerian and Akkadian literature (Letterature dell'antica Mesopotamia, Firenze Le Monnier Università, 2016) and civilization (Introduzione alle culture dell'antica Mesopotamia, Milano Mondadori Education, 2017). He is the epigraphist in chief of Italian Archaeological Expedition to Tell Zurghul, ancient Nigin (Iraq). Agnès Garcia-Ventura is currently lecturer at the Universitàt Autònoma de Barcelona. She is the editor of several volumes, including Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East (with Saana Svärd, Eisenbrauns and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) and What's in a Name? Work Force and Job Categories in the Ancient Near East (Ugarit-Verlag, 2018).

• Foreword, Paul Collins Preliminary Considerations, Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame Visual ArtsPedro Azara and Marc MarínMesopotamia in Miró. Miró in Mesopotamia Jean M. EvansCase Studies in the Popular Reception of the Tell Asmar Sculpture Hoard Silvana Di PaoloImages of Ruins as Metaphorical Places of Transformation: The Case of Persepolis Performing ArtsKerstin Droá-KrupeArtaserse: An Ancient Oriental Ruler on Modern Opera Stages? Valeska HartmannWhen Imitation Became Reality: The Historical Pantomime Sardanapal (1908) at the Royal Opera of Berlin Daniele Federico RosaYe Go to Thy Abzu: How Norwegian Black Metal Used Mesopotamian References, Where It Took Them from, and How It Usually Got Them Wrong Film and Television Kevin McGeough"Babylon's Last Bacchanal": Mesopotamia and the Near East in Epic Biblical Cinema Eva MillerHe Who Saw the Stars: Retelling Gilgamesh in Star Trek: The Next Generation Lorenzo VerderameEvil from an Ancient Past and the Archaeology of the Beyond: An Analysis of the Movies The Exorcist (1973) and The Evil Dead (1981) Novels and ComicsJana Myná?ová and Pavel Ko?ínekThe Ancient Near East in Czech Comics and Popular Culture: The Case of Jáchym and the Printer's Devil Luigi TurriGilgamesh, The (Super)Hero Francesco PomponioMystery Literature and Assyriology Ryan WintersAncient Aliens, Modern Cosmologies: Zecharia Sitchin and the Transformation of Mesopotamian Myth Archaeologist in the MiddleDavide NadaliThe (In)visibility of Archaeology Juan-Luis Montero FenollósImagining the Tower of Babel in the Twenty-First Century: Is a New Interpretation of the Ziggurat of Babylon Possible? Silvia FestucciaAthletic Disciplines in the Ancient Near East: Representation and Reconstruction Afterword. Memory and Memories: From the Ancient Near East to the Modern WestFrances Pinnock Contributors Subject Index

Lorenzo Verderame is professor of Assyriology at "Sapienza" University of Rome. His publications include an edition of the first six chapters of the astrological series Enūma Anu Enlil (Le tavole I-VI della serie astrologica Enūma Anu Enlil, 2002) and overviews of Sumerian and Akkadian literature (Letterature dell'antica Mesopotamia, Firenze Le Monnier Università, 2016) and civilization (Introduzione alle culture dell'antica Mesopotamia, Milano Mondadori Education, 2017). He is the epigraphist in chief of Italian Archaeological Expedition to Tell Zurghul, ancient Nigin (Iraq). Agnès Garcia-Ventura is currently lecturer at the Universitàt Autònoma de Barcelona. She is the editor of several volumes, including Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East (with Saana Svärd, Eisenbrauns and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) and What's in a Name? Work Force and Job Categories in the Ancient Near East (Ugarit-Verlag, 2018).

• Foreword, Paul Collins Preliminary Considerations, Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame Visual ArtsPedro Azara and Marc MarínMesopotamia in Miró. Miró in Mesopotamia Jean M. EvansCase Studies in the Popular Reception of the Tell Asmar Sculpture Hoard Silvana Di PaoloImages of Ruins as Metaphorical Places of Transformation: The Case of Persepolis Performing ArtsKerstin Droá-KrupeArtaserse: An Ancient Oriental Ruler on Modern Opera Stages? Valeska HartmannWhen Imitation Became Reality: The Historical Pantomime Sardanapal (1908) at the Royal Opera of Berlin Daniele Federico RosaYe Go to Thy Abzu: How Norwegian Black Metal Used Mesopotamian References, Where It Took Them from, and How It Usually Got Them Wrong Film and Television Kevin McGeough"Babylon's Last Bacchanal": Mesopotamia and the Near East in Epic Biblical Cinema Eva MillerHe Who Saw the Stars: Retelling Gilgamesh in Star Trek: The Next Generation Lorenzo VerderameEvil from an Ancient Past and the Archaeology of the Beyond: An Analysis of the Movies The Exorcist (1973) and The Evil Dead (1981) Novels and ComicsJana Myná?ová and Pavel Ko?ínekThe Ancient Near East in Czech Comics and Popular Culture: The Case of Jáchym and the Printer's Devil Luigi TurriGilgamesh, The (Super)Hero Francesco PomponioMystery Literature and Assyriology Ryan WintersAncient Aliens, Modern Cosmologies: Zecharia Sitchin and the Transformation of Mesopotamian Myth Archaeologist in the MiddleDavide NadaliThe (In)visibility of Archaeology Juan-Luis Montero FenollósImagining the Tower of Babel in the Twenty-First Century: Is a New Interpretation of the Ziggurat of Babylon Possible? Silvia FestucciaAthletic Disciplines in the Ancient Near East: Representation and Reconstruction Afterword. Memory and Memories: From the Ancient Near East to the Modern WestFrances Pinnock Contributors Subject Index