Friday, January 13, 2012

Wilfred Lambert Obituaries

I posted on the death my former colleague Wilfred Lambert in December.  Jim West followed up his earlier posts with a notice that Wilfred Lambert was featured on Last Word, Radio 4's regular obituaries programme.  Although the podcast version is no longer available, you can listen again to the episode.

Now also the Telegraph has published its obituary: 

Professor Wilfred Lambert
Professor Wilfred Lambert, the Assyriologist who has died aged 85, was a scholar of ancient Mesopotamia and the world’s leading expert on cuneiform, an ancient form of writing which began as a system of pictographs and, over three millennia, developed into a more simplified and abstract script.

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2 comments:

  1. Hugh Houghton13 January 2012 at 10:28

    And textual critics will still have to make the same emendation.

    Still, the continuing inclusion of the word 'high' might be of interest for source critics.

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  2. Mark Goodacre13 January 2012 at 10:30

    Interesting how that word crops u again!

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