Seton Lloyd

Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd ( * May 30, 1902 in Birmingham, † January 7, 1996 in Faringdon, Oxfordshire ) was a British Near Eastern archaeologist.

Lloyd attended Uppingham School and then studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London until the conclusion of 1926. His first archaeological experience in the excavations of Tell el- Amarna under Henri Frankfort. From 1930 to 1937 he worked for this on excavations in the Valley of the Diyala. 1937 to 1939 he conducted with John Garstang by excavations at Mersin. Since 1939 he worked for the Directorate of Antiquities of Iraq in Baghdad. He introduced several large excavation projects, including Tell Uqair, Eridu, Tell Asmar and Ḫorsabad. In 1948, he became Director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, which he directed until 1961. In Turkey, he participated in excavations in Beycesultan, Polatlı, Harran and Sultantepe. There were surveys, especially in Jabal Sinjar. From 1962 to 1969 he was Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London.