Jan Tavernier, Ph.D. (2002), Catholic University of Louvain, is professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Université catholique de Louvain. His research axes are inter alia: Elamite and Old Persian languages, linguistic history of the Achaemenid Empire and interaction between the Arabian peninsula and Mesopotamia.Elynn Gorris, Ph.D. (2014), Catholic University of Louvain, is a Marie Curie Global Fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain and Macquarie University. Her research is focused on the political, diplomatic and commercial history of the Neo-Elamite kingdom and its neighbors. She recently published a monograph Power and Politics in the Neo-Elamite Kingdom (Leuven, 2020).Katrien De Graef, Ph.D. (2005), Ghent University, is Associated Professor of Assyriology and History of the Ancient Near East at Ghent University. She has published monographs and many articles on the socio-economic history of Babylonia and Elam, including The Middle East after the Fall of Ur: from Ešnunna and the Zagros to Susa (Oxford, 2022).

• PrefaceList of FiguresList of TablesAbbreviationsPart 1 History1 Tradition und Nationalgefühl in der elamischen KonföderationMichael Andreas Mäder2 Agricultural Production of the Girsu-Lagaš Institution at Susa During the Ur III PeriodKazuya Maekawa3 Neo-Elamite Eastern Territories and Pastoralist People: The Case of Persian TribesKiumars Alizadeh4 Perilous Journeys for Elamite Messengers and EnvoysElynn GorrisPart 2 Language5 Mesopotamia and the East: The Perspective from the Literary Texts from Fāra and Tell Abū ṢalābīḫKamran Vincent Zand6 The Logogram for ‘King’ in Susa and ElamGian Pietro Basello7 Kings (and Others) with Too Many Names: An Elamite Onomastic ImbroglioJan TavernierPart 3 Religion8 The Elymaean Temple of Bard-e Neshandeh: A New InterpretationDavide SalarisPart 4 Culture9 The Bow of Elam, the Mainstay of Their MightJavier Álvarez-Mon10 The Historical Geography of Western Iran: An Archaeological Perspective on the Location of KimašSteve Renette11 Royal Imagery of Old Elamite Kings: A Competition for IdentityHolly Pittman12 On the Way from Susiana to the Deh Lurān Plain: New Evidence of the Elamite Settlements on the Western Bank of the Karkheh River, Southwest IranAli Zalaghi13 Female, Fish and Frying Pan: An Enigmatic Funerary Unique to ElamYasmina Wicks14 Elam and Persia: Between the Environment and Land Use, Comparable Models?Nabil Ibnoerrida15 Note on New Weights from Susa: Further Evidence on Susa-Indus Commercial Transactions and Cultural RelationsEnrico Ascalone16 Scales and Weights from Susa and Ur: Metrological Interaction Spheres between Southern Mesopotamia and Western Iran during the Middle Bronze AgeLuca PeyronelIndex of Divine NamesIndex of Personal NamesIndex of Topographical NamesIndex of Text Citations