Obituary for Wilfred Lambert

AN OBITUARY FOR WILFRED LAMBERT in the Telegraph:

Professor Wilfred Lambert

Professor Wilfred Lambert, the Assyriologist who has died aged 85, was a scholar of ancient Mesopotamia and the world’s leading expert on cuneiform, an ancient form of writing which began as a system of pictographs and, over three millennia, developed into a more simplified and abstract script.

It would be hard to single out "the world’s leading expert on cuneiform," but Lambert would certainly have been in the running.

Via the Agade list. Background here.