Acknowledgements our friendship and the kindness he has shown me these past years. Among my Egyptological colleagues in Copenhagen, I am truly indebted to Kim Ryholt for all his thoughtful help and support in many forms from my time as a student to the present day. Furthermore, Fredrik Hagen has kindly helped me in countless academic matters these past years, and as chairman of my dissertation examination committee he raised several important points, for which I am thankful.It gives me great pleasure to thank the Vorderasiatisches Museum zu Berlin for permission to study several of Kiṣir-Aššur's tablets discussed in this volume. Especially Lutz Martin deserves special recognition for his assistance in helping me arrange visits to the VAM during the summer of 2015 and 2016. I am also indebted to Erica Couto-Ferreira, Eckart Frahm, Irene Sibbing-Plantholt and the BabMed project for kindly sharing forthcoming works with me prior to their publication. I am also thankful to Jacob Dahl for an invitation to present my research under stimulating circumstances in Oxford during May 2019. Additionally, I am grateful to researchers and students at the Würzburg Lehrstuhl für Altorientalistik for three inspiring months I spent there in 2016, and I am particularly thankful to the Würzburg CMAwR research group for their friendship and interest in my work. My thanks furthermore extend to my two anonymous peer-reviewers who provided helpful comments and criticism.Jennifer Cromwell and Seraina Nett deserve special recognition and profound thanks for diligently reading through my drafts with great attention, addressing various issues and correcting my English. To Ulla Koch, I am grateful for her interest in my research and an invitation to discuss certain issues relating to my work. Mogens Trolle Larsen and Thomas Hertel are also recognized for their support and for helpful discussions about my work. It is a pleasure to also thank paediatrician Elisabeth Lund and biologist Sophie Lund Rasmussen for numerous discussions of the modern veterinary and human medical aspects of ancient medicine. Their inputs and suggestions greatly helped me shape the ideas formulated in this volume. Additionally, I am grateful to Katelyn Chin, Erika Mandarino and Kristen Chevalier at Brill for all their assistance during the process of publishing this book.For their help in various matters throughout the years, it is a pleasure to acknowledge the following people: