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Table of Contents: The Urukean Archpriest En in the Archaic Period: A few remarks on his functions (Krystyna Szarzynska); 'Fear the Oath!' Stepping back from Oath Taking in First Millennium BC Babylonia (Malgorzata Sandowicz); Tre Lettere di Mercanti del Mar Nero Settentrionale Revisitate. Sui modi de organizzazione e gli attori del commercio e sulla 'giustizia privata' in poleis ed emporia (Benedetto Bravo); La Conception d'Aeternitas dans le Monnayage de Consecration Romain de l'Epoque du Principat (Katarzyna Balbuza); Jerome, Palliatae, and Veteres Comici A note to Hier. Ep.57.5.5 (De Optimo Genere Interpretandi) (Krzysztof Rzepkowski); The Enigmatic Historian Parthenios of Phokaia, the Ethnika of Stephanus of Byzantium and the Historiography of the Turn of the 5th and 6th Centuries (Pawel Janiszewski). VariaThe Foundation Inscription of King Amar-Suena of the Third Dynasty of Ur (Marek Stepien); Throwing the Ancient Greek Dory How effective is the attached ankyle at increasing the distance of the throw? (Steven Ross Murray, William A. Sands and Douglas A. O'Roark). ReviewsWschodnie korzenie kultu Apollona. Studium lingwistyczno-historyczne (The Oriental Roots of the Cult of Apollo: A Linguistic-Historical Study) (Mikolaj Szymanski); Early Christian Books in Egypt (Ewa Wipszycka); Ancient Studies in Poland: Recent Books of Interest (Piotr Berdowski, Maciej Daszuta, Michal Faszcza and Marta Wojtowicz).