Richard Barnett
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Richard David Barnett CBE (23 January 1909 - 29 July 1986) was the Keeper, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum.
Education: St Paul's School, London; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was a student of British School of Archaeology at Athens, 1930-32.
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1962 and made a CBE in 1974.
[edit] Career
- Assistant Keeper, Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum, 1932-9 and 1946-53
- World War II: Admiralty 1939-40; Foreign Office, 1940-42; Intelligence Officer, RAF, 1942-46, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Turkey.
- Deputy Keeper, Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum, 1953-4
- Keeper, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, 1955-74
- Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1974-75
[edit] Posts held
- President, Jewish Historical Society of England, 1959-61
- Chairman, Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, 1968-86
- Corresponding Member, Greek Archaeological Society
- Ordinary Fellow, German Archaeological Institute, 1961
[edit] Publications
- (ed) Treasures of a London Temple, 1951
- (with Sir Leonard Woolley) British Museum Excavations at Carchemish, Vol. III, 1952
- Catalogue of Nimrud Ivories in the British Museum, 1957, 2nd edn 1975
- (trans.) The Jewish sect of Qumran and the Essenes (by J. Dupont-Sommer), 1954
- Assyrian Palace Reliefs, 1960
- (with M. Falkner) The Sculptures of Tiglath-pileser III, 1962, 2nd edn, 1970
- Illustrations of Old Testament History, 1966, 2nd edn 1977
- (ed) The Sephardi Heritage, 1971
- (ed) Catalogue of the Jewish Museum, London, 1974
- (with Amleto Lorenzini) Assyrian Sculpture, 1976
- The Sculptures of Ashurbanipal, 1976
- Ancient Ivories from the Middle East, 1982
- Articles on archæology and Anglo-Jewish history in various learned journals
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