Theophilus Goldridge Pinches M.R.A.S. (1856 - June 6, 1934 Muswell Hill, London), was a pioneer British assyriologist.

Pinches was originally employed in father's business as a die-sinker, but, following an amateur interest in cuneiform inscriptions, joined the staff of the British Museum in 1878, working there as assistant then curator till retirement in 1900. He was lecturer in Assyriology at University College, London, and in the University of Liverpool till 1932 or 1933, and died in 1934.

During his tenure at the Egyptian and Assyrian Department, British Museum, he gave assistance to scholars including Abraham Sachs

Abraham Sachs

Abraham Sachs was an American assyriologist. He earned his PhD in Assyriology in 1939 at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for his collaboration with Otto Neugebauer, whom he met in 1941 when the latter visited the Oriental Institute in Chicago; Neugebauer and Sachs joined on the publication...

 and taught at London University. It was largely due to his "painstaking work" during his time as assistant keeper at the British Museum between 1895 and 1900, that many pieces acquired by the museum were joined together again. When also translated some Babylonian tablets which related to the Battle of the Vale of Siddim

Battle of the Vale of Siddim

The Battle of Siddim, or Battle of the Vale of Siddim refers to an event in the Hebrew Bible book of that occurred in the days of Abram and Lot...

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Works

• Texts in the Babylonian wedge-writing 1880
• The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
• The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia. 1908

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