List of Figures -- Preface -- I Prologue -- A Brief Account of the Development of the Field of Music Archaeology -- II Studies -- The Mesopotamian Theory of Music and the Ugarit Notation - a Reexamination -- Mesopotamian Music Theory since 1977 -- Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East -- The Balaĝ Instrument and Its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia -- The Ala-Instrument: Its Identification and Role -- Musical Practices and Instruments in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Syria) -- Nudity and Music in Anatolian Mythological Seduction Scenes and Iconographic Imagery -- Illusions of Grandeur: The Instruments of Daniel 3 Reconsidered -- Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why "Cyprus Matters" -- Aristophanes' Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern -- Aspects of Music Culture in the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods: Sepphoris as a Case Study -- Soothing Lyres and epodai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David -- Sounds from under the Ashes: The Music of Cults and Mysteries in the Ancient Vesuvian Land -- III Epilogue -- Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom.