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Lot Essay
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Items one-six:
E. Sollberger (ed.), The Pinches Manuscript, Materiali per il Vocabolario Neosumerico, vol. V, Rome, 1978, pls X, XIX, II, I, XVI, & IV, nos 61, 114, 14, 132, 94, & 26 (respectively).
Theophilus Pinches was a pioneering British Assyriologist. He joined the British Museum in 1878, starting as an assistant and becoming curator and assistant keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Department in 1895 until his retirement in 1900. After his tenure at the British Museum, he assisted Lord Amherst of Hackney in building his large collection of 900 cuneiform tablets, publishing a catalogue of 121 pieces in 1908. He also taught at University College London and the University of Liverpool until 1933.
Items one-six:
E. Sollberger (ed.), The Pinches Manuscript, Materiali per il Vocabolario Neosumerico, vol. V, Rome, 1978, pls X, XIX, II, I, XVI, & IV, nos 61, 114, 14, 132, 94, & 26 (respectively).
Theophilus Pinches was a pioneering British Assyriologist. He joined the British Museum in 1878, starting as an assistant and becoming curator and assistant keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Department in 1895 until his retirement in 1900. After his tenure at the British Museum, he assisted Lord Amherst of Hackney in building his large collection of 900 cuneiform tablets, publishing a catalogue of 121 pieces in 1908. He also taught at University College London and the University of Liverpool until 1933.