This book contains the proceedings of the 61e Rencontre Assyriologique
Internationale, which was held in Geneva and Bern in Switzerland from
22nd until 26th June 2015. The overarching conference theme "Text and
Image" addressed a topic of fundamental importance for historical
research on ancient Near Eastern cultures and societies. The aim of the
conference was to stimulate an interdisciplinary dialogue between the
closely related, but increasingly diverging disciplines of Near Eastern
Archaeology and Assyriology. Fifty-one articles are published in three
languages, including contributions to the main topic and to a number of
workshops organized in the context of the RAI, as well as reports on an
extraordinary session devoted to cultural heritage.