Paul Collins

Nigel is curator of the Museum¹s collection of Assyrian and Babylonian artefacts, other than cuneiform tablets, dating from 1500 to 539 BC.

Paul is Lead Curator for the Zayed National Museum Project. He was previously responsible for the Museum’s collection of Assyrian and Babylonian artefacts and has a particular interest in the art of ancient Sumer and Assyria, especially the Museum’s outstanding collection of Assyrian reliefs.

Contact

pcollins@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7323 8708

Previous projects

• Responsible for the travelling exhibition, Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum

External fellowships/ honorary positions

• Member of Council for the British Institute for the Study of Iraq

• Fellow of the Society of Antiquities

Recent publications

P. Collins, From Egypt to Babylon: The International Age 1550-500 BC (2008, British Museum Press)

P. Collins, Assyrian Palace Sculptures, with photographs by Lisa Baylis and Sandra Marshall, (2008, British Museum Press)

P. Collins ‘An Assessment of Archaeological Sites in June 2008: An Iraqi-British Project’ with J. Curtis, Q.H. Raheed, H. Clarke, A.M. Al-Hamdani, E. Stone, M. Van Ess and M. Ali. Iraq 70 (2008), pp. 215-237.

P. Collins ‘Spirit king’ Magazine of the British Museum Friends 59 (winter 2007), pp. 40-41.

P. Collins, ‘An Assyrian-Style Ivory Plaque from Hasanlu, Iran’ Metropolitan Museum Journal, 41 (2006), pp. 19-31

P. Collins, ‘Trees and gender in Assyrian art’ Iraq, 69 (2006), pp. 99-107

P. Collins, ‘Royal Reliefs’ Magazine of the Friends of The British Museum (Summer 2006), pp. 40-42

P. Collins, ‘The development of the individual enemy in Assyrian art,’ Source: Notes in the History of Art XXV/3 (Spring 2006), pp. 1-8

P. Collins, ‘From Village to Empire: the rise of Sumer and Akkad’ in A. Schuster and M. Polk (eds.) The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia (2005, Abrams), pp. 82-99