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LUDĚK VACÍN (PhD from SOAS, University of London) is an Assyriologist focusing on Sumerian literature, royal ideology, and intellectual history of late 3rd and early 2nd millennium BCE Mesopotamia. Having spent four years at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and at the Free University in Berlin, Germany, he now works at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové, Czechia. He is the editor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Blahoslav Hruška (Dresden, 2011), and the author of several studies on Sumerian royal hymnography, as well as of an edition of the Cuneiform Texts in the Náprstek Museum Prague (in Studies Jana Součková-Siegelová, Leiden and Boston, 2016).