Margaret Munn-Rankin

Margaret Munn-Rankin
Born
Joan Margaret Munn-Rankin

(1913-07-29)29 July 1913
Died28 July 1981(1981-07-28) (aged 67)
NationalityBritish
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology and history
Sub-disciplineAncient Near East
Assyriology
InstitutionsNewnham College, Cambridge
University of Cambridge

Joan Margaret Munn-Rankin (29 July 1913 – 28 July 1981), known as Margaret Munn-Rankin and published as J. M. Munn-Rankin, was a British archaeologist, historian, and academic, who specialised in the ancient Near East.[1]

Career

From 1949 until her death in 1981, she was a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and a lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge. She bequeathed a sum of money to the university to establish the Margaret Munn-Rankin Studentship for Assyriology.[2]

In addition to her extensive teaching, she was also a field archaeologist and was involved in a number of excavations including Nimrud and Tell Rifaat.[3][4][5]

Selected works

  • Munn-Rankin, J. M. (1956). "Diplomacy in Western Asia in the Early Second Millennium B.C.". Iraq. 18 (1): 68–110. doi:10.2307/4199599. JSTOR 4199599.
  • Munn-Rankin, J. M. (1959). "Ancient near Eastern Seals in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge". Iraq. 21 (1): 20–37. doi:10.2307/4199645. JSTOR 4199645.
  • J. M. Munn-Rankin (1975). "XXV: Assyrian Military Power, 1300–1200 BC". In I. E. S. Edwards; C. J. Gadd; N. G. L. Hammond; S. Solberger (eds.). The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume II, Part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region, 1380–1000 BC. Cambridge University Press. pp. 274–306. ISBN 978-0521086912.

References

  1. ^ Postgate, Nicholas (5 July 2017). Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History. Taylor & Francis. pp. xviii. ISBN 978-1-136-78863-5.
  2. ^ University of Cambridge (8 October 2015). Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge 2015. Cambridge University Press. p. 870. ISBN 978-1-107-53146-8.
  3. ^ Lesko, Barbara S. "Margaret Munn-Rankin 1913-1981" (PDF). Breaking Ground. Brown University. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  4. ^ Postgate, J. N. (1983). "Margaret Munn-Rankin (29 July 1913-28 July 1981)". Archiv für Orientforschung. 29: 333. JSTOR 41661946.
  5. ^ "Editorial". Iraq. 43 (2). British Institute for the Study of Iraq: i. 1981. JSTOR 4200138.


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