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Barbara, Lady Mallowan, OBE (née Hastings Parker; 14 July 1908 – 21 November 1993) was an English archaeologist, Assyriologist, and epigraphist who specialised in cylinder seals. [ 1 ] Life and work
Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE, FBA, FSA (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist and academic, specializing in the Ancient Near East. Having studied classics at Oxford University, he was trained for archaeology by Leonard Woolley at Ur and Reginald Campbell Thompson at Nineveh .
Its first director was Max Mallowan whose wife was Agatha Christie who wrote Murder in Mesopotamia. Among the notable projects the school was involved in was the excavation at Nimrud. [2] In the aftermath of 2003 invasion of Iraq, the school devoted its resources to assisting in the rebuilding of Iraq's heritage. Funding from the British ...
Here she was initially an assistant to Max Mallowan, later becoming a lecturer. [6] Mallowan encouraged her to investigate Near Eastern metalwork. Her archaeological research on metal artefacts from the ancient Near East resulted in two articles on western Asian swords and daggers, establishing a new typology for these matériel.
Barbara Parker-Mallowan (British, 1908–1993), archaeologist and epigraphist who specialized in cylinder seals. Simo Parpola (Finnish, born 1943), expert on the Neo-Assyrian Empire in all its aspects (language, literature, history etc.)
Through his excavations, Mallowan greatly contributed to mapping the topography of the ancient city. [7] Mallowan's excavations included the southern section of the Northwest Palace where, in 1951, he discovered the so-called “Harem Quarters” underneath room DD. He found an Iron Age, eighth century B.C.E, coffin containing a woman.
Mona Lisa of Nimrud refers to a carved ivory piece of art discovered in the city of Nimrud in a campaign of excavation from 1949 to 1963, led by Sir Max Mallowan. [1] It is one of the most well known of the Nimrud ivories. It has also been known as the “Lady of the Well.”. [2] In contrast, another sculpture found with it was named "Ugly ...
Max Mallowan; John Marshall (archaeologist) David Mattingly (archaeologist) ... Mike Parker Pearson; Barbara Parker-Mallowan; John Henry Parker (writer) Humfry Payne;