Sarah Collins
Assistant Keeper, Early Mesopotamia
collections
Early Mesopotamia
Department: Middle East
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 323 8944
Email: scollins @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Sarah Collins is the curator responsible for
the Early Mesopotamia collections (from prehistory to ca. 1500 BC)
in the Middle East department.
She is an archaeologist and has excavated
extensively including in Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon and is
currently responsible for the British Museum excavations at Sidon,
Lebanon www.sidonexcavation.org
Since 2003 she has been involved in the
Museums’ efforts to assist the Iraqi Museum and with Iraqi cultural
heritage issues (including with training for Iraqi curators and
archaeologists).
In 2007 Sarah was awarded the OBE for services to museums.
Current British Museum projects
Ur concordance
Previous British Museum projects
Various British Museum excavation projects since 1986, most
recent - excavations at Deir ‘Ain Abata, Jordan (1994 – 1998)
External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
Member of British School of Archaeology in Iraq
Council for British Research in the Levant
Palestine Exploration Fund
Society of Arabian Studies
Committee member of the London Centre for the
Ancient Near East
Publications
Most recent publications
S. Colllins, ‘The Middle Bronze Age Tombs’ in K. D. Politis
(ed.), Excavations at the Sanctuary of St. Lot at Deir ‘Ain
‘Abata, Jordan (1998-2003) (British Museum Press,
forthcoming)
S. Colllins, ‘A Monumental Building at Sidon:
Room 3, Context 971’ in Archaeology and History in the
Lebanon, 24 (Autumn 2006), pp. 106 – 13
S. Colllins, Review of D.R. Clarke., V.H.
Matthews (eds) 100 Years of American Archaeology in the Middle
East in Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXII no. 5-6 (2005)
pp.602-7
S. Colllins, ‘The Restoration and Protection
of Iraq’s Cultural Heritage’ in Archaeology Abroad (Autumn
2003), pp. 3-6
S. Colllins, ‘Pottery from Middle Bronze Age
II Cairn Tombs, Deir ‘Ain Abata, Jordan’ with L. Joyner in The
Old Potters Almanack, 10/3 (2002) pp. 1-5