James Vincent Kinnier Wilson (27 November 1921 – 22 December 2022) was a British
Assyriologist. He was Eric Yarrow Lecturer, from 1955 until 1989,[1] and Emeritus Fellow,
Wolfson College, Cambridge.[2]
Kinnier Wilson lived in
Cambridge.[5] He last published works in 2016.[6]
The
Ancient India and Iran Trust held a 100th birthday celebration for Wilson on 26 November 2021.[7] He died on 22 December 2022, at the age of 101.[8][9]
1955–89: Appointed Eric Yarrow Lecturer in Assyriology, University of Cambridge
1965–67: Chairman, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge
Publications
The Nimrud Wine Lists: A study of men and administration at the Assyrian capital in the Eighth Century BC (
The British School of Archaeology in Iraq, London, 1972)
Indo-Sumerian: A new approach to the problems of the Indus Script (
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974)
The Rebel Lands: An investigation into the Origins of Early Mesopotamian Mythology (
Cambridge University Press, 1979)
The Legend of Etana: A new edition (Aris and Phillips, Warminster, 1985)
Studia Etanaica: new texts and discussions, Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Band 338 (Ugarit-Verlag, Münster, 2007)
James Kinnier Wilson, ed. (2007). The Wisdom and the Beauty: A Selection of Short Passages from the Qur'an. Shepheard-Walwyn.
ISBN978-0-85683-247-5.
Towards Novaluation: God's Work and Ours at the End of the Age (Janus Publishing Company, 2010)
Selected chapters and articles
"An Introduction to Babylonian Psychiatry", The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Assyriological Studies, No. 16, Chicago, pp. 289–298, 1965
"Organic diseases of Ancient Mesopotamia", and "Mental diseases of Ancient Mesopotamia", in D Brothwell and A T Sandison, eds., Diseases in Antiquity: a Survey of the Diseases, injuries and Surgery of Early Populations, (Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois), Chaps. 15 and 56, 1967
"Medicine in the Land and the Times of the Old Testament", in Studies-in the period of David and Solomon and other Essays, ed. Tomo Ishida (Yamakawa-Shuppansha, Tokyo), pp. 339–365, 1982
"The 'Seven Cities' of the Indus Script: a Restatement", South Asian Studies, 12, pp. 99–104, 1996
“'On the Ud-shu-bala [Weather change] at Ur towards the End of the Third Millennium BC", Iraq LXVII/2, pp. 47–60, 2005
"On Stroke and Facial Palsy in Babylonian Texts" (with E. H. Reynolds), in Disease in Babylonia. ed. I.L. Finkel and M.J. Geller (Brill, Leiden), pp. 67–99, 2007
Media
Narrator in the short film, "The Poor Man of Nippur — World's first film in Babylonian" produced by the University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology (2018)[10]