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Porada, Edith was born on August 22, 1912 in Vienna, Austria.
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Porada, Edith was born on August 22, 1912 in Vienna, Austria.
She graduated from the Realreform Gymnasium Luithlen in 1930 and received her Doctor of Philosophy 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 World War II She was named Arthur Lehman Professor in 1974 and, upon retiring in 1984, held that title emeritus. 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.".
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Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, British Academy (correspondent), Austrian Academy. Member American Philosophical Society.