R D Barnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 272275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R D Barnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | R D |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnett |
| SIGNATURE | BARNETT R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Plaque from Failaka
Professor U. Bahadir Alkim
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A Winged Goddess of Wine on an Electrum Plaque
In 1968 the Bezalel National Museum of Jerusalem, Israel — now incorporated into the Israel Museum — acquired a small but splendid and significant piece of ancient jewellery. As it came from the art-market in New York, it is thus unfortunately without provenance. I now publish it by kind permission of the Chief Curator of Archaeology, Mrs. Miriam Tadmor, and the Curator of the Department of Neighbouring Cultures, Mrs. Rivka Merhav. Here is, first…
Vision of the Temple
Charles Bellino and the Beginnings of Assyriology
On 12th November 1820 died in Mosul a little known young man named Carl, or Charles, Bellino. Aged only 29, he had already taken a serious place among those who laid the foundations of the study of cuneiform. Yet already in 1890 a German scholar writing an important study of its decipherment by Grotefend, confessed that he had almost no information about Bellino's life and career. As my German and Austrian friends and colleagues, (notably Profess…
The European Merchants in Angora
Ties linking Britain with Ankara go back many centuries; probably the earliest evidence of them was published by David French in the last number of this Journal, in the form of a letter from Ambassador William Harborne to James Towerson dated to 1583; other evidence can certainly be gleaned from the extensive papers of the long extinct Levant Company. The present writer is able to point to a little more evidence formerly visible in Ankara itself.…
Harris Dunscombe Colt
Sir Robert Ker Porter
More Addenda from Toprak Kale
Over twenty years have passed since the present writer first drew attention to the remarkable but completely forgotten archaeological discoveries made at the Urartian site of Toprak Kale, discoveries made in 1880 by Rassam and his associates, Dr. Raynolds and Captain Clayton, acting for the British Museum. I also summarised the results of the work in 1898 at the same site done by Lehmann (afterwards Lehmann-Haupt) and Belck; these finds are now a…
The Sephardi Heritage
Some Recent Works on Ancient Syria and the Sea People
New Facts about Musical Instruments from Ur
One of the most interesting discoveries of the French excavation conducted by Monsieur Parrot at Mari was the beautiful seated figure of Ur-nanshe, “the great singer”, She sits on a basketry seat or cushion smiling, her feet neatly crossed and her hands folded; by her office she recalls the scene on the famous so-called “Mosaic Standard” found by Sir Leonard Woolley at Ur, which Professor Mallowan has suggested is itself part of a musical instrum…
The Sea Peoples
B. B. Piotrovskii
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The Art of Ancient Iran
The Tree of Life
Illustrations of Old Testament History
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Hamath and Nimrud
It must be very unusual in the history of archaeology for a site to have a history of excavation in two stages, separated by over a century. Ur, Babylon and Susa were touched, it is true, by early workers in the Mesopotamian field; but their work there had little to compare with that of our generations. Yet the brilliantly successful excavations of Professor Mallowan and his staff of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq have repeatedly carri…
The Urartian Cemetery at Igdyr
In 1943 the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian S.S.R. published at Tiflis, as Part XIII.B of the Bulletin of the Georgian Government Museums , a book of 171 pages by the late B. A. Kuftin (1892–1953), entitled Urartskii “kolymbarii” u podoshvy Ararata i Kuro-Arakskii Éneolit [An Urartian “Columbarium” on the slopes of Ararat and the Copper Age of the Kur-Araxes basin]. The terminus technicus “columbarium ” (Latin = a pigeon-cot) is translated in…
Two Chance Finds from Ur
It is an honour to me to offer in memory of Sir Leonard Woolley a note on two chance finds at Ur which have recently come to light.The white marble half-statuette (15·2 cm. high, BM.132101) which is illustrated in Pls. XXV–XXVI was presented to the British Museum in 1956, having been originally found by a naval visitor to Ur, Able-Bodied Seaman J. B. Smith, who stated that he picked it up himself. According to his report, it was found in an area …
Further Russian Excavations in Armenia (1949-1953)
The Russian excavations at Karmir-Blur, conducted since 1939 jointly by the Institute of History of the Armenian Republic and the Hermitage Museum, are the only excavations of an Urartian site of any importance as yet made under scientific conditions. A summary of the first part of their publication was published in this Journal in 1952, and it is in keeping with the importance of this excavation that a further summary, covering the seasons 1949 …
The Assyrian Sculptures in the Collection of the Royal Geographical Society
The society's collection of eight fragments of Assyrian sculpture has a certain historical connection with the Society. They appear to have all belonged originally to Colonel (afterwards Sir) Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, famous as the decipherer of the cuneiform inscriptions, who was twice (1871-2 and 1874-5) President and a Vice-President of the Society, and are stated to have formerly ornamented his library. After the death of his eldest son, Hen…
Early Shipping in the Near East
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Persepolis
The great site of Persepolis, though known for centuries past from the accounts of many travellers, remained until 1931 one of the very few of the great capital cities of the ancient Near Eastern world still untouched. Yet its monuments have formed the objects of serious study since more than a century; Ker Porter's careful drawings (1817) are by no means to be despised, but the pioneer work of Flandin and Coste, carried out in 1840–1841, before …
The Nimrud Ivories and the Art of the Phoenicians
The Urartian Cemetery at Igdyr
In 1943 the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian S.S.R. published at Tiflis, as Part XIII.B of the Bulletin of the Georgian Government Museums , a book of 171 pages by the late B. A. Kuftin (1892–1953), entitled Urartskii “kolymbarii” u podoshvy Ararata i Kuro-Arakskii Éneolit [An Urartian “Columbarium” on the slopes of Ararat and the Copper Age of the Kur-Araxes basin]. The terminus technicus “columbarium ” (Latin = a pigeon-cot) is translated in…
Early Shipping in the Near East
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Further Russian Excavations in Armenia (1949-1953)
The Russian excavations at Karmir-Blur, conducted since 1939 jointly by the Institute of History of the Armenian Republic and the Hermitage Museum, are the only excavations of an Urartian site of any importance as yet made under scientific conditions. A summary of the first part of their publication was published in this Journal in 1952, and it is in keeping with the importance of this excavation that a further summary, covering the seasons 1949 …
Vision of the Temple
Sir Robert Ker Porter
The Tree of Life
Karatepe, the Key to the Hittite Hieroglyphs
I. Scholars who attempted the decipherment of the Hittite hieroglyphics began their task with only slender hopes. They had, it is true, before their eyes the successes of their predecessors in solving the secrets both of the Egyptian hieroglyphics and of the Assyrian cuneiform scripts. But these successes had been made possible because in each case a ready key had, been at hand in the shape of a bilingual. Until six years ago no bilingual equal t…
The Nimrud Ivories and the Art of the Phoenicians
A Cylinder Seal from Syria
Sir Leonard Woolley found last year at Al Mina in the surface soil an interesting cylinder seal. It is published, but without comment, in J.H.S. 1938, pl. xv. It is now in the British Museum, numbered 126064 (Plate I, 2).It is of whitish chalcedony, 11⁄2 inches high. The design, which is marred by a chip in the middle, falls into three parts and represents a scene of worship. In the left of the impression is a large figure of a worshipper; in the…
Note
The Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine. Vol. X, Nos, 2–4. London
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King Ini-teśub of Carchemish in an Egyptian document
King Ini-tesub of Carchemish in an Egyptian Document
A Phœnician Inscription from Eastern Cilicia
In 1946 Professor Helmuth Bossert, a distinguished scholar who had already made several remarkable contributions to Anatolian studies and had taken an outstanding part in the decipherment of the Hittite hieroglyphs, in collaboration with an able Turkish colleague, Dr. Bahadir Alkim, published the first account of their discovery of fragments of Old Semitic inscriptions at Karatepe (Aslantaş), in Cilicia. The site is marked by the remains of a sma…
Hittite Hieroglyphic Texts at Aleppo
Hittite Hieroglyphic Texts at Aleppo.
The stele No. 2459 (Plates XIX–XXII) was acquired by the Musee National Syrien d'Alep in 1939, after its existence had been reported by peasants. It lay face downwards in an open field at Jekke, 22 kms. to the east of Azaz, which itself lies 25 kms. to the north of Aleppo (Fig. 8). Excavations were conducted by M. Dunand around the spot where it lay, but revealed nothing except some very simple foundations. It is a tall stele, 1.66 m. high, of gr…
The Excavations of the British Museum at Toprak Kale near Van
Russian Excavations in Armenia
The Find of Urartian Bronzes at Altin Tepe, Near Erzincan
In 1938 Near Erzincan an important find of Urartian metal-work was made, which is now in the Ankara Museum. In view of the rarity of Urartian material as yet recovered and of the brief character of the only publication of this find, we thought it desirable to publish a fuller account
Karatepe, the Key to the Hittite Hieroglyphs
I. Scholars who attempted the decipherment of the Hittite hieroglyphics began their task with only slender hopes. They had, it is true, before their eyes the successes of their predecessors in solving the secrets both of the Egyptian hieroglyphics and of the Assyrian cuneiform scripts. But these successes had been made possible because in each case a ready key had, been at hand in the shape of a bilingual. Until six years ago no bilingual equal t…
The Hittite LawsNeufeldE. The Hittite Laws LondonLuzac and Co., 1951, 35s
The Excavations of the British Museum at Toprak Kale, near Van
In Vol. XII (1950) of Iraq I published as much as was then available of the results of Rassam and Clayton's excavations at Toprak Kale. I also summarily described the material from the excavations of Lehmann-Haupt and others at the same site. Since then, some items missing in 1950 have come to light in the British Museum, while others not then fit for publication have been cleaned and repaired. In addition, I have now obtained access to Russian p…
The Treasure of Ziwiye
The first account of the discovery of the Treasure of Ziwiye was published in two places by the then Director of Antiquities of the Persian Government, M. Andre Godard. The first, Le Tresor de Ziwiye: (Editions de l'Institut Franco-Iranien) gave the text of his lecture to the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. The other was Le Tresor de Ziwiye, a beautifully illustrated book published at Haarlem in 1950 by the Iranian Archaeological Ser…
Persepolis
The great site of Persepolis, though known for centuries past from the accounts of many travellers, remained until 1931 one of the very few of the great capital cities of the ancient Near Eastern world still untouched. Yet its monuments have formed the objects of serious study since more than a century; Ker Porter's careful drawings (1817) are by no means to be despised, but the pioneer work of Flandin and Coste, carried out in 1840–1841, before …
A Syrian silver vase
In 1936 or 1937, Syrian peasants from the village of Tell Qatine, just east of the outlet and barrage of the Lake of Homs, (1) discovered a silver cup or vase. It seems that the vase was complete when found, but that the peasants cut it into pieces to melt them down. Three portions of its engraved rim were recovered. They are 0.22 long (in development); maximum height (left end) 0.052; the height of the engraved band being 0.03 (cable patterns: 0…
Early Shipping in the Near East
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Further Russian Excavations in Armenia (1949-1953)
The Russian excavations at Karmir-Blur, conducted since 1939 jointly by the Institute of History of the Armenian Republic and the Hermitage Museum, are the only excavations of an Urartian site of any importance as yet made under scientific conditions. A summary of the first part of their publication was published in this Journal in 1952, and it is in keeping with the importance of this excavation that a further summary, covering the seasons 1949 …
The Assyrian Sculptures in the Collection of the Royal Geographical Society
The society's collection of eight fragments of Assyrian sculpture has a certain historical connection with the Society. They appear to have all belonged originally to Colonel (afterwards Sir) Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, famous as the decipherer of the cuneiform inscriptions, who was twice (1871-2 and 1874-5) President and a Vice-President of the Society, and are stated to have formerly ornamented his library. After the death of his eldest son, Hen…
Two Chance Finds from Ur
It is an honour to me to offer in memory of Sir Leonard Woolley a note on two chance finds at Ur which have recently come to light.The white marble half-statuette (15·2 cm. high, BM.132101) which is illustrated in Pls. XXV–XXVI was presented to the British Museum in 1956, having been originally found by a naval visitor to Ur, Able-Bodied Seaman J. B. Smith, who stated that he picked it up himself. According to his report, it was found in an area …
Hamath and Nimrud
It must be very unusual in the history of archaeology for a site to have a history of excavation in two stages, separated by over a century. Ur, Babylon and Susa were touched, it is true, by early workers in the Mesopotamian field; but their work there had little to compare with that of our generations. Yet the brilliantly successful excavations of Professor Mallowan and his staff of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq have repeatedly carri…
The Urartian Cemetery at Igdyr
In 1943 the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian S.S.R. published at Tiflis, as Part XIII.B of the Bulletin of the Georgian Government Museums , a book of 171 pages by the late B. A. Kuftin (1892–1953), entitled Urartskii “kolymbarii” u podoshvy Ararata i Kuro-Arakskii Éneolit [An Urartian “Columbarium” on the slopes of Ararat and the Copper Age of the Kur-Araxes basin]. The terminus technicus “columbarium ” (Latin = a pigeon-cot) is translated in…
Notiz
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