My PhD research explores how cultural behaviour, political policy, and medical knowledge influenced the apotropaic and therapeutic use of images in the Neo-Assyrian period. I will attempt to reconstruct spatial and temporal routes of image transmission, focusing especially on figurine deposits and cylinder seals. I will also consider the cognitive interplay between verbal and visual modes of communication concerning wellbeing and personal protection in their wider institutional context. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, this project will show how this remedial relationship between supernatural imagery and personal wellbeing could be directly implicated in imperial strategies of domination.