Richard Barnett

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.

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

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

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