Wilfred G. Lambert
Encyclopedia
Wilfred G. Lambert, FBA was a historian and archaeologist, a specialist in Assyriology
and Near Eastern Archaeology
.
Retired after long service from the University of Birmingham
, he worked with the British Museum
on their Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals Project, dealing with the inscriptions on the seals. In January 2010 Professor Lambert and by Dr Irving Finkel identified pieces from a cuneiform tablet that was inscribed with the same text as the Cyrus Cylinder
.
Lambert was an external consultant for the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
. "The edited words were also sent to Professor W. G. Lambert of Birmingham, England, for his comments and additions."
His work, Introduction: the transmission of the literary and scholarly texts, in Literary and scholastic texts of the first millennium BC (Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2), New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art was used as background material for the Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire online project. He is also noted for his new discoveries in relation to the Gilgamesh
text.
Lambert was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1971. He is also a presenting member of the International Congress of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology.
Assyriology
Assyriology is the archaeological, historical, and linguistic study of ancient Mesopotamia and the related cultures that used cuneiform writing. The field covers the Akkadian sister-cultures of Assyria and Babylonia, together with their cultural predecessor; Sumer...
and Near Eastern Archaeology
Near Eastern archaeology
Near Eastern Archaeology is a regional branch of the wider, global discipline of Archaeology...
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Retired after long service from the University of Birmingham
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
, he worked with the British Museum
British Museum
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
on their Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals Project, dealing with the inscriptions on the seals. In January 2010 Professor Lambert and by Dr Irving Finkel identified pieces from a cuneiform tablet that was inscribed with the same text as the Cyrus Cylinder
Cyrus cylinder
The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great. It dates from the 6th century BC and was discovered in the ruins of Babylon in Mesopotamia in 1879...
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Lambert was an external consultant for the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary or The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is a nine-decade project at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute to compile a dictionary of the Akkadian language and its dialects, focusing on the New-Assyrian forms...
. "The edited words were also sent to Professor W. G. Lambert of Birmingham, England, for his comments and additions."
His work, Introduction: the transmission of the literary and scholarly texts, in Literary and scholastic texts of the first millennium BC (Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2), New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art was used as background material for the Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire online project. He is also noted for his new discoveries in relation to the Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh was the fifth king of Uruk, modern day Iraq , placing his reign ca. 2500 BC. According to the Sumerian king list he reigned for 126 years. In the Tummal Inscription, Gilgamesh, and his son Urlugal, rebuilt the sanctuary of the goddess Ninlil, in Tummal, a sacred quarter in her city of...
text.
Appointments and Memberships
- 1959-64 Associate Professor and Chair of Oriental Seminary, Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
- 1970-93 Professor of Assyriology, University of BirminghamUniversity of BirminghamThe University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
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Lambert was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1971. He is also a presenting member of the International Congress of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology.