Richard David Barnett
Richard David Barnett CBE FBA was the Keeper, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum.
He went to St Paul's School, London and 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
- Treasures of a London Temple, 1951
- British Museum Excavations at Carchemish, Vol. III, 1952
- Catalogue of Nimrud Ivories in the British Museum, 1957, 2nd edn 1975
- The Jewish sect of Qumran and the Essenes, 1954
- The Sculptures of Tiglath-pileser III, 1962, 2nd edn, 1970
