Dr Anthony Green is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology

Near Eastern archaeology

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 at the Freie Universität Berlin, and a former Baghdad

Baghdad

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 Fellow of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq

British School of Archaeology in Iraq

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, J. Paul Getty

J. Paul Getty

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 Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art

History of art

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 at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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 and G. A. Wainwright Research Fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology

Near Eastern archaeology

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 at Oxford University. He has excavated extensively in Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

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and writes on ancient Mesopotamian art and archaeology.

Publications

• Jeremy Black and Anthony Green (illustrations by Tessa Rickards), Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: an Illustrated Dictionary, London: British Museum Press; and Austin: University of Texas Press 1992; 2nd. ed. London 1998; Polish edition (Slownik mitologii Mezopotamii) Katowice 1998; Czech edition (Bohové, Démoni a Symboly Staroveké Mezopotámie) Prague 1999.
• The Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East (Oxbow Monographs in Archaeology, Number 51) edited by Stuart Campbell and Anthony Green, Oxford: Oxbow Books 1995.
• (Editor) Abu Salabikh Excavations, Volume 4, The 6G Ash-Tip and Its Contents: Cultic and Administrative Discard from the Temple? 2 vols., London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq 1993.
• John Curtis and Anthony Green, Excavations at Khirbet Khatuniyeh, London: British Museum Press 1997.