Moorey, Peter Roger Stuart

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MOOREY, Peter Roger Stuart

MOOREY, Peter Roger Stuart. British, b. 1937. Genres: Archaeology/ Antiquities. Career: Keeper, Dept. of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1983-2002 (Sr. Assistant keeper, 1961-83); Senior Research Fellow and Vice-gerent, Wolfson College, Oxford, 2002-. Fellow, British Academy, 1977. Ed., Levant (journal of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem), 1968-86. President, British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1990-98. Publications: Archaeology, Artefacts and the Bible, 1969; Ancient Egypt, 1970, 1988; Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971; Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Adam Collection, 1974; Ancient Bronzes from Luristan, 1974; Biblical Lands, 1975, 1991; Kish Excavations 1923-1933, 1978; Cemeteries of the First Millennium B.C. at Deve Huyuk, 1980; Excavation in Palestine, 1981; (with B. Buchanan) Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, vols, 2-3, 1984-88; Materials and Manufacture in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Evidence of Art and Archaeology: Metals and Metalwork, Glazed Materials and Glass, 1985; A Century of Biblical Archaeology, 1991; Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries, 1994; From Gulf to Delta and Beyond, 1995. Address: 343 Iffley Rd, Oxford OX4 4DP, England.