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British archaeologist and historian

Margaret Munn-Rankin
BornJoan 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.

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.

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.

Selected works

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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