Edmond Sollberger, FBA (12 October 1920 – 21 June 1989) was a Turkish-born, Swiss–British museum curator, cuneiformist and scholar of the Sumerian language.
[1] In 1961, Sollberger moved to England to be a temporary assistant keeper of Western Asiatic antiquities at the British Museum under Richard David Barnett.
In 1963 and 1964, he edited two volumes for the series Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum (working from copies by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches); he made his own copies for another volume in the series (Pre-Sargonic and Sargonic Economic Texts) in 1972.
He also wrote a popular book, The Babylonian Legend of the Flood (1962), as well as Inscriptions Royales Sumeriennes et Akkadiennes (with Robert Kupper, 1971); he edited The Pinches Manuscript (1978) and authored Administrative Texts Chiefly Concerning Textiles (1981).
In the meantime, Sollberger had been appointed co-editor of The Cambridge Ancient History (1969) and from 1979 was the editor-in-chief of The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia series based at the University of Toronto.