# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-finkel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:37:45.473Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-finkel"
name: "Irving Finkel"
slug: "irving-finkel"
description: "Irving Leonard Finkel is an English philologist and Assyriologist. He is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia."
tagline: "British archaeologist"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump