Thompson, Reginald Campbell

 

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  • Birth Year: 1876
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Biography and Research

Name: Thompson, Reginald Campbell

Dates: 21 August 1876 - 23 May 1941

Birthplace: England

Specialisation: Assyriology; Archaeology

Major works:

CT 11 (1900), 12 (1901), 14 (1902), 16-17 (1903), 18 (1904), 19 (1904), 20 (1904), 22 (1906), 23 (1906) The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon, London 1900 The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, London 1903-1904 Late Babylonian Letters, London 1906 Semitic Magic, London 1908 Assyrian Medical Texts, London 1923 The Assyrian Herbal, London 1924 On the Chemistry of the Ancient Assyrians, London 1925 A Catalogue of the Late Babylonian Tablets in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, London 1927 The Epic of Gilgamesh, London 1928 The Epic of Gilgamesh, Oxford 1930 A Century of Exploration at Nineveh, London 1929 (with R.W. Hutchinson) The Prisms of Esarhaddon and of Ashurbanipal, London 1931 A Dictionary of Assyrian Chemistry and Geology, Oxford 1936 A Dictionary of Assyrian Botany, London 1949

Remarks:

Studied in Cambridge Assistant, Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum, 1899- Excavated in Nineveh, 1904-1905, 1927-1931 Assistant Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Chicago, 1907-1909 Editor of the journal Iraq, 1935- Shillito Reader in Assyriology, University of Oxford, 1937-1941 (successor to S. Langdon)

Obituaries:

AfO 14 (1941-1944) 234-236 (E. Weidner), with photo

Publications

Thompson, Reginald Campbell. 1904. Cuneiform Texts. Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum 19. [CT 19 (Campbell1904CT19)]

King, Leonard W., and Reginald Campbell Thompson. 1904 & 1967. [CT 19, pl. 11, Sm 0190 + CT 25, pl. 20 & 23, DT 115 (King1904 & 1967-148244)]

King, Leonard W., and Reginald Campbell Thompson. 1907. The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistûn in Persia. British Museum. [The Sculptures and inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistûn in Persia (KingThompson1907Darius)]

Reiner, Erica, Benno Landsberger, and Reginald Campbell Thompson. 1904, 1969. [CT 19, pl. 41, K 04560 + MSL 12, 92 U (Landsberger1904, 1969-152896)]

Thompson, Reginald Campbell. 1900. The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon in the British Museum. London : Luzac. [RMA (Thompson1900)]

Thompson, Reginald Campbell. 1900. Cuneiform Texts. Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum 11. [CT 11 (Thompson1900CT11)]

Thompson, Reginald Campbell. 1901. Cuneiform Texts. Cuneiform Texts From Babylonian Tablets In The British Museum 12. [CT 12 (Thompson1901CT12)]

Thompson, Reginald Campbell. 1902. Cuneiform Texts. Cuneiform Texts From Babylonian Tablets In The British Museum 14. [CT 14 (Thompson1902CT14)]

Thompson, Reginald Campbell. 1903-1904. The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia : Being Babylonian and Assyrian Incantations against the Demons ... Which Attack Mankind : Translated from the Original Cuneiform Texts, with Transliterations, Vocabulary, Notes, Etc. [Devils (Thompson1903-4Devils)]

Thompson, Reginald Campbell. 1903. Cuneiform Texts. Cuneiform Texts From Babylonian Tablets In The British Museum 17. [CT 17 (Thompson1903CT17)]


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CDLI contributors. 2026. “Thompson, Reginald Campbell - Authors.” Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. August 13, 2026. https://cdli.earth/authors/1055.
CDLI contributors. (2026, August 13). Thompson, Reginald Campbell - Authors. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. https://cdli.earth/authors/1055
CDLI contributors (2026) Thompson, Reginald Campbell - Authors, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Available at: https://cdli.earth/authors/1055 (Accessed: August 13, 2026).
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Cite this Author

CDLI contributors. 2026. “Thompson, Reginald Campbell - Authors.” Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. August 13, 2026. https://cdli.earth/authors/1055.
CDLI contributors. (2026, August 13). Thompson, Reginald Campbell - Authors. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. https://cdli.earth/authors/1055
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