Twenty studies are devoted to the Ancient Near Eastern scholar Konrad Volk. Among others, C. Mittermayer and P. Attinger have established a score edition of the Sumerian composition "Enmerkara and Ensukukedana" comprising all known texts. C. Wunsch outlines the inheritance law in Neo-Babylonian and early Achaemenid times, W. Meinhold the Old Babylonian laws of adoption and G. and H. Neumann the genesis of the horned cap of Mesopotamian gods. A. Fuchs demands to clearly differentiate between the three Sargons: the Akkadian Sarru(m)-kīn/kēn, the Old Assyrian Sarru-kīn and the Neo-Assyrian Sarru-ukīn. M. Krebernik presents a new "Dumuzi Inanna Song" of the Hilprecht collection.