Seton Lloyd
30 May 1902 — 7 January 1996 · 56 obras en el catálogo
Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, CBE, was an English archaeologist. He was President of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, Director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Turkey (President, 1948–1961), and Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology, University of London (1962–1969). Lloyd was born in Birmingham, England. After education at Uppingham School, he studied at the Architectural Association in London and qualified as an architect in 1926. In 1939 Lloyd was appointed Archaeological Adviser to the Directorate of Antiquities in Iraq, where he helped to establish the Iraq Museum and reorganize the Gertrude Bell Museum. He trained Iraqi archaeologists and participated with Iraqi colleagues in several major excavations, notably at 'Uqair and Eridu, at Assyrian Khorsabad, the Aqueduct of Sennacherib at Jerwan. He excavated with, among others, James Mellaart, one of the first scholars at the Ankara School, the mound at Beycesultan, in western Anatolia, and also conducted excavations at Polatli, Haran, Sultantepe and other Anatolian sites. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seton_Lloyd)
