Hammoudi ibn Ibrahim

Hammoudi ibn Ibrahim (c. 1875–1953[1]), was an Arab archaeological foreman who managed workers at major excavations in the Middle East during the first three decades of the twentieth century.

Sheikh Hammoudi, as he was known, came from the northern Syrian town of Jarabulus, located on the western bank of the Euphrates River, just south of the present-day Syrian-Turkish border.

Among the scenes that Yahya photographed were skeletons unearthed at the Royal Cemetery of Ur, also known as the "Great Death Pit", which contained about 2,000 burials in addition to that of the queen identified as Puabi.

[8] Max Mallowan noted that Katharine Woolley sculpted Hammoudi's head in bronze, and described it as "an impressive and powerful portrait of the man."

[2] Photographs of Hammoudi and his son Yahya survive among the papers of the Jesuit priest and epigrapher, Father Leon Legrain, an expert on Sumerian cuneiform, who became curator of the Babylonian tablet collection at the Penn Museum.