Editorsâ Acknowledgements
We thank the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, the Program in Early Cultures, the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the Center for Middle East Studies, the Department of Classics, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University for financial support of the workshop at which preliminary versions of these papers were presented and discussed. We also wish to record our thanks to Catherine Hanni for her organizational support and Rebecca Barclay for designing the workshop poster.