# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ephraim-avigdor-speiser
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:21:36.762Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ephraim-avigdor-speiser"
name: "Ephraim Avigdor Speiser"
slug: "ephraim-avigdor-speiser"
description: "Ephraim Avigdor Speiser was a Polish-born American Assyriologist and translator of the Torah. He discovered the ancient site of Tepe Gawra in 1927 and supervised its excavation between 1931 and 1938."
tagline: "American archaeologist (1902–1965)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Ephraimavigdorspeiser.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1902-01-24"
deathDate: "1965-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.164705882352941
  historical:           7.213176000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump