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