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P. R. S. Moorey, MA, DPhil, FBA, FSA (1937-2004)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

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Obituaries
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2005

References

1 See the bibliography of major publications to 2002 (with some inadvertent omissions) in Potts, T., Roaf, M. and Stein, D. (eds.), Culture through Objects: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of P. R. S. Moorey, Griffith Institute, Oxford, 2003, 1116Google Scholar. His most significant subsequent publications are Idols of the People, Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East, Schweich Lectures 2001, Oxford 2003Google Scholar; and Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas, with a catalogue of the collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Oxford 2005 (and on-line)Google Scholar.

2 This review focuses on his Mesopotamian contribution. For a longer personal appreciation, with more detail on his work on the Levant, see the obituaries by Dauphin, C. in Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 22 (2004), 8696Google Scholar and Palestine Exploration Quarterly in press, upon which I have drawn here.