The essays in this volume study various aspects of the iconography of cylinder seals from the Akkadian period to the Neo-Assyrian period, from Mesopotamia to Hittite Anatolia. The authors deal mostly with concrete examples, including themes such as warfare, the sacred tree, fish and the god Ninurta. An introduction discusses the problems involved in interpreting iconography with few or no texts. The contributors are Dominique Collon, Candida Felli, Mariana Giovino, Suzanne Herbordt, Othmar Keel, Evelyn Klengel-Brandt, Ruth Mayer-Opificius, Ursula Seidl, Diana Stein, Paul Taylor, and Frans Wiggermann.