Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien

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Birth Year: 1904
Death Year: 1978
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Name	Language
	Arabic

Biography and Research

Name

Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien

Dates

6 May 1904 - 19 August 1978

Birthplace

London

Specialisation

Archaeology

Major works

Twenty-five years of Mesopotamian discovery (1932-1956), London 1956 Early Mesopotamia and Iran, London 1965 Nimrud and Its Remains, London 1966 Ivories from Nimrud, London 1967- Mallowan’s Memoirs, 1977 The Nimrud Ivories, London 1978 Bibliography in Iraq 36 (1974)

Remarks

Assistant at the Ur excavations under L. Woolley, 1925-1930 Excavated at Nineveh under R. Campbell Thompson, 1931 Expeditions to Arpachiyah (1933), Chagar Bazar (1934-1936), Tell Brak (1936-1938) Director, British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1949-1958, Editor (1949-1971), Chairman (1966-1970), President (1970-1978) First professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology, University of London, 1947 Excavation of Nimrud (1949-1957)

Obituaries

AfO 26 (1978-1979) 242-243 (D.J. Wiseman), with photo BibAr 42 (1979) 180-183 (G. CAmeron), with photo

Festschrift

Iraq 36 (1974)

Publications

El-Amin, Mahmud, and Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan. 1949. “Soundings in the Makhmur Plain.” Sumer 5 (2): 145–53. [El-Amin, Sumer 5/2 (1949) (El-Amin1949-8H64MDA6)]

Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien. 1936. “The Excavations at Tall Chagar Bazar, and an Archaeological Survey of the Habur Region, 1934-5.” Iraq 3: 1–85. [Iraq 3 (pp. 1-85) (Mallowan1936Iraq3)]

Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien. 1937. “The Excavations at Tall Chagar Bazar and an Archaeological Survey of the Habur Region. Second Campaign, 1936.” Iraq 4: 91–177. [Iraq 4 (pp. 91-177) (Mallowan1937Iraq4)]

Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien. 1946. “Excavations in the Balih Valley.” Iraq 8. [Iraq 8 (pp. 111-159) (Mallowan1946Iraq8)]

Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien. 1947. “Excavations at Brak and Chagar Bazar.” Iraq 9: 1–259. [Iraq 9 (pp. 1 - 259) (Mallowan1947Iraq9)]

Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien. 1952. “The Excavations at Nimrud (Kalḫu), 1951.” Iraq 14 (1): 1–23. [Iraq 14, 023 (Mallowan1952Iraq23)]

Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien. 1966. Nimrud and Its Remains. Collins. [Nimrud and its Remains (Mallowan1966Nimrud)]

Woolley, C. Leonard, and Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan. 1962. Ur Excavations: The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods. Ur Excavations 9. [UE 9 (Woolley1962UE9)]

Woolley, C. Leonard, and Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan. 1976. The Old Babylonian Period. Ur Excavations, vol. 7. London : British Museum Publications. http://digital.library.stonybrook.edu/cdm/ref/collection/amar/id/3918. [UE 7 (Woolley1976UE7)]

Total 9 record(s)

Cite this Author

CDLI contributors. 2026. “Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien - Authors.” Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. October 30, 2026. https://cdli.earth/authors/795.

CDLI contributors. (2026, October 30). Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien - Authors. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. https://cdli.earth/authors/795

CDLI contributors (2026) Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien - Authors, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Available at: https://cdli.earth/authors/795 (Accessed: October 30, 2026).

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Cite this Author

CDLI contributors. 2026. “Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien - Authors.” Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. October 30, 2026. https://cdli.earth/authors/795.

CDLI contributors. (2026, October 30). Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien - Authors. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. https://cdli.earth/authors/795

CDLI contributors (2026) Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien - Authors, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Available at: https://cdli.earth/authors/795 (Accessed: October 30, 2026).

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