Edith Porada

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Edith Porada

Edith Porada (22 August 1912,

archaeologist, a leading authority on ancient cylinder seals and a professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University.[1]

About

Porada was born in Vienna to a wealthy family. She graduated from the Realreform Gymnasium Luithlen in 1930 and received her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 1935 with a dissertation about glyptic art of the Old Akkadian period. Later she moved to Paris to study at the Louvre. In 1938 she emigrated to the United States where she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the seals of Ashurnasirpal II.

She taught at

Queens College and, beginning in 1958, at Columbia, attaining the rank of full professor in 1964.[2] In 1969, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3] She was named Arthur Lehman Professor in 1974 and, upon retiring in 1984, held that title emeritus. In 1976 she was awarded the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America.[4] She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1978.[5]

Columbia University established an Edith Porada professorship of ancient Near Eastern art history and archaeology with a $1 million endowment in 1983. In 1989 Porada was awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters for Columbia for "profound connections between the human experience and the interpretation of the cylinder seals."

Publications

References

  1. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2021-10-26.
  2. ^ "Obituaries: Edith Porada, 81". Columbia University Record. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  3. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter P" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
  4. ^ "Gold Medal Award". Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-15.

External links

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