Prof Nicholas Postgate, FBA

Career: asst lectr in Akkadian SOAS Univ of London 1967-71; fell Trinity Coll Cambridge 1970-74; dir British Sch of Archaeology in Iraq 1975-81 (asst dir 1972-75); Univ of Cambridge: lectr in history and archaeology of the ancient Near East 1982-85, reader in Mesopotamian studies 1985-94, prof of Assyriology 1994-; dir of excavations: Abu Salabikh Iraq 1975-89, Kilise Tepe Turkey 1994-98 and 2007-; FBA 1993

Books and Publications: Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire (1974), Fifty Neo-Assyrian Legal Documents (1976), The First Empires (1977), Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History (1992), A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian (jtly, 1999), Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern (ed, 2007); edns of cuneiform texts and articles in learned jls