The coverage of the Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie embraces those ancient Near Eastern cultures which used the cuneiform script (Mesopotamia, North Syria and Anatolia) together with neighbouring regions in the 4th to the 1st millennia B.C. Entries include important personalities, deities, ancient place names and modern archaeological sites, as well as cultural items and concepts, which are treated from both philological and archaeological perspectives, as appropriate. The Reallexikon is planned to appear in 16 volumes.