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Cyril John Gadd ,
CBE ,
FBA ,
FSA (2 July 1893 – 2 December 1969) was a British
Assyriologist ,
Sumerologist , and
curator . He was Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities,
British Museum from 1948 to 1955, and Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages and Civilizations at the
School of Oriental and African Studies ,
University of London from 1955 to 1960. Having served in the
British Army during the
First World War , he joined the British Museum after demobilisation and also worked on
excavations at
Ur ,
Carchemish ,
Alalakh and
Nimrud . Having risen to Keeper, he left the British Museum to enter academia, and was appointed
professor emeritus on his retirement in 1961.
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Selected works
Edwards, I. E. S ; Gadd, C. J;
Hammond, N. G. L ;
Sollberger, E , eds. (1973), The Cambridge Ancient History: Vol. 2. Part 1, History of the Middle East and the Aegean region, c. 1800-1380 B.C , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Edwards, I. E. S; Gadd, C. J; Hammond, N. G. L; Sollberger, E, eds. (1975), The Cambridge Ancient History: Vol. 2. Part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean region, c. 1380-1000 B.C , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
ISBN
0511466773
References
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"Gadd, Cyril John, (2 July 1893–2 Dec. 1969), Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages and Civilizations, London University, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1955–60, Professor Emeritus, 1961" .
Who Was Who . Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007.
doi :
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U56938 .
ISBN
978-0-19-954089-1 .
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Dalley, Stephanie (10 September 2020).
"Gadd, Cyril John (1893–1969), Assyriologist" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
doi :
10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.107283 .
ISBN
9780198614128 . Retrieved 16 September 2020 .
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Mallowan, Max (1971).
"Cyril John Gadd" (PDF) .
Proceedings of the British Academy (56): 362–402. Retrieved 16 September 2020 .
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Wiseman, D. J. (1970).
"Obituaries: Cyril John Gadd" . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London . 33 (3): 592–598.
doi :
10.1017/S0041977X00126588 .
JSTOR
614525 .
External links
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