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Roger Moorey
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<h2 id="early-life">Early life</h2> <p>Moorey was born in <a href="/facts/Bush_Hill_Park/fvFQaK0h">Bush Hill Park</a>, <a href="/facts/Enfield%2c_London/QcQxf0Gk">Enfield</a>, <a href="/facts/Middlesex/Mzn77Wy7">Middlesex</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> He was educated at <a href="/facts/Mill_Hill_School/cSphchQM">Mill Hill School</a>, then an all-boys <a href="/facts/Private_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom/qtMWktBL">private</a> <a href="/facts/Boarding_school/qsf6E4Ms">boarding school</a>. He studied modern history at <a href="/facts/Corpus_Christi_College%2c_Oxford/9xIA55ER">Corpus Christi College, Oxford</a>. Between school and university he did his <a href="/facts/National_Service/2YavqXb5">National Service</a> in the <a href="/facts/Intelligence_Corps_(United_Kingdom)/IxYWJKLV">Intelligence Corps</a>, learning <a href="/facts/Russian_(language)/ETXrTgHV">Russian</a> and serving in <a href="/facts/Cyprus/t9wL6lVK">Cyprus</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="career">Career</h2> <p>Peter Moorey's time in Cyprus (with its fine archaeological heritage) probably reinforced a childhood interest in ancient history and may well have prompted his interest in the post of Assistant Keeper of Antiquities at the <a href="/facts/Ashmolean_Museum/zRl83sQY">Ashmolean Museum</a> which became available at the time of his graduation in 1961. He was eventually appointed as Keeper of Antiquities, which post he remained in until his retirement in 2003, shortly before his death. He was appointed Acting Director of the Ashmolean Museum during 1997–98 for eight months and briefly at other periods.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>Moorey's excavation interests and experiences were broad, excavating at <a href="/facts/Jerusalem/PKJ8LT0Y">Jerusalem</a> under <a href="/facts/Kathleen_Kenyon/5RK6Jy5H">Kathleen Kenyon</a> in 1963 and in <a href="/facts/Abu_Salabikh/xy72qMvp">Abu Salabikh</a> in <a href="/facts/Iraq/pqYSFJw8">Iraq</a> under <a href="/facts/Nicholas_Postgate_(academic)/rbFtAgQy">Nicholas Postgate</a> in the 1970s. In 1982, Moorey edited <i>Ur of the Chaldees</i>, a republication of <a href="/facts/Leonard_Woolley/wEq4ztlm">Leonard Woolley</a>'s 1954 <i>Excavations at Ur</i>, adding new photographs and information, and deleting some references to the <a href="/facts/Book_of_Genesis/uFEgtYrb">Book of Genesis</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>Moorey was a Fellow of the <a href="/facts/British_Academy/RtbyQVwB">British Academy</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> and the <a href="/facts/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London/kRxgPxzT">Society of Antiquaries of London</a>. </p> <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <ul><li>P.R.S. Moorey, <i>Excavation in Palestine</i>, <a href="/facts/Lutterworth_Press/eWIRekuM">Lutterworth Press</a>, 1982. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-7188-2432-6.</li> <li>P.R.S. Moorey, <i>A Century of Biblical Archaeology</i>, Lutterworth Press, 1991. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-7188-2825-9.</li> <li>P.R.S. Moorey, <i>Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence</i>, Oxford: <a href="/facts/Clarendon_Press/CYyTzzWG">Clarendon Press</a>, 1994. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-19-814921-2.</li> <li>P.R.S. Moorey, <i>Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East</i>, Oxford: <a href="/facts/Oxford_University_Press/CYyTzzWG">Oxford University Press</a>, 2003. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-19-726280-5. <ul><li><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1995/95.12.12.html">Review</a> — <i>Bryn Mawr Classical Review</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/Leonard_Woolley/wEq4ztlm">Leonard Woolley</a> & P.R.S. Moorey. <i>Ur 'of the Chaldees': A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's</i> Excavations at Ur. <a href="/facts/Cornell_University_Press/qbwTuIJC">Cornell University Press</a>, 1982. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-8014-1518-7</li> <li><a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/objects/?mu=138">Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas in the Ashmolean Museum</a> — online catalogue.</li></ul> <h2 id="festschrift">Festschrift</h2> <p>Potts, Timothy, Roaf, Michael & Stein, Diana (eds), <i>Culture through Objects: Ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of P.R.S. Moorey</i>, Oxford: <a href="/facts/Griffith_Institute/6mfN9GAz">Griffith Institute</a>, 2003. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-900416-80-7. </p> <h3>Obituaries</h3> <ul><li><a href="https://archive.today/20110604004509/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1450822,00.html">Roger Moorey, Obituary</a>, <i><a href="/facts/The_Times/5BwkodnX">The Times</a></i> (22 January 2005)</li> <li><a href="http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,12212,1404726,00.html">Roger Moorey, Obituary</a>, <i><a href="/facts/The_Guardian/H84wwJYM">The Guardian</a></i>, obit by Ashley Jones (3 February 2005)</li> <li><a href="http://www.ajaonline.org/necrology/114">Roger Moorey, 1937–2004</a>, <i><a href="/facts/American_Journal_of_Archaeology/YYXzP4PA">American Journal of Archaeology</a></i>, obit by O. Muscarella (July 2005)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Moorey, Peter Roger Stuart". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 1 November 2024. <a href="https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/moorey-peter-roger-stuart" target="_blank">https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/moorey-peter-roger-stuart</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Jones, Ashley (3 February 2005). "Obituary: Roger Moorey". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 November 2019. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/feb/03/sciencenews.obituaries" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/feb/03/sciencenews.obituaries</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Peter Roger Stuart Moorey 1937–2004" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. XV. UK: The British Academy: 373–397. 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2024. <a href="https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1048/17-Moorey.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1048/17-Moorey.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Book review in the Wilson Quarterly, 1982.[dead link] <a href="http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/sites/default/files/articles/WQ_VOL6_SI_1982_Review_14.pdf" target="_blank">http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/sites/default/files/articles/WQ_VOL6_SI_1982_Review_14.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Peter Roger Stuart Moorey 1937–2004" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. XV. UK: The British Academy: 373–397. 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2024. <a href="https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1048/17-Moorey.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1048/17-Moorey.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>