Leonard William King, FSA (8 December 1869 – 20 August 1919) was an English archaeologist and

Assyriologist Assyriology (from Greek , ''Assyriā''; and , ''-logia'') is the archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic study of Assyria and the rest of ancient Mesopotamia (a region that encompassed what is now modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southea ...

educated at

Rugby School Rugby School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. ...

and

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the cit ...

. He collected stone inscriptions widely in the Near East, taught Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at King's College for a number of years, and published a large number of works on these subjects. He is also known for his translations of ancient works such as the Code of Hammurabi. He became Assistant Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

Works

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Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi, 3 vols.
(1898–1900) * ''

Encyclopaedia Biblica ''Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religion History, the Archeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible'' (1899), edited by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, is a critical encyclopedi ...

'' (contributor) (1903)
Babylonian Religion and Mythology
(1903) * Egypt and Western Asia in the light of Recent Discoveries (1907) * Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings (1907)
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vol2

Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition
( Schweich Lecture for 1916)
The seven tablets of creation : or The Babylonian and Assyrian legends concerning the creation of the world and of mankind
(1902)

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CDLI Wiki

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* * * 1869 births Fellows of King's College, Cambridge English translators English non-fiction writers English Assyriologists Archaeologists of the Near East 1919 deaths English male non-fiction writers 19th-century British translators 19th-century English male writers {{UK-translator-stub Assyriologists