Richard David Barnett

Richard David Barnett CBE FBA (23 January 1909 – 29 July 1986) 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

• (ed) Treasures of a London Temple, 1951
• (with Sir Leonard Woolley) British Museum Excavations at Carchemish, Vol. III, 1952
• Catalogue of Nimrud Ivories in the British Museum, 1957, 2nd edn 1975
• (trans.) The Jewish sect of Qumran and the Essenes (by J. Dupont-Sommer), 1954
• Barnett, Richard David; Forman, Werner; Museum, British (1960), Assyrian palace reliefs and their influence on the sculptures of Babylonia and Persia, [London] Batchworth Press, OCLC 406410
• Barnett, Richard David; Museum, British (1966), Illustrations of Old Testament history, London, British Museum, OCLC 1237822
• (with M. Falkner) The Sculptures of Tiglath-pileser III, 1962, 2nd edn, 1970
• Barnett, Richard David (1971), The Sephardi heritage; essays on the history and cultural contribution of the Jews of Spain and Portugal, New York, Ktav Pub. House, ISBN 978-0-87068-170-7
• Barnett, Richard David; Jewish Museum (London, England) (1974), Catalogue of the permanent and loan collections of the Jewish Museum, London, Published for the Jewish Museum by Harvey Miller, ISBN 978-0-85602-010-0
• Barnett, Richard David; Lorenzini, Amleto; Museum, British (1975), Assyrian sculpture in the British Museum, McClelland and Stewart, ISBN 978-0-7710-5345-0
• Barnett, Richard David; Museum, British (1976), Sculptures from the north palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (668-627 B.C.), British Museum Publications Ltd. for the Trustees of the British Museum, ISBN 978-0-7141-1046-2
• Barnett, Richard David (1982), Ancient ivories in the Middle East, Qedem, 14; Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, OCLC 9032788