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C. J. Gadd

Cyril John Gadd, was a British Assyriologist, Sumerologist, and curator. He was Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum from 1948 to 1955, and Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages and Civilizations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London from 1955 to 1960.

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Gadd was born on 2 July 1893 in Bath, Somerset, England. He additionally worked on excavations at Ur, Carchemish, Alalakh and Nimrud, and published on texts from those site dating from c. 2600–539 BCE. Gadd married Kathleen Mary Gardiner (1887–1969) in 1930. They did not have any children. He retired to Bury St Edmunds, where he died of pneumonia and motor neurone disease on 2 December 1969. ==Selected works==
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