Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis is the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

's Curator of Middle Eastern coins. She is Joint Director of the International Parthian Coin Project, The Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum (SNP), and Joint Editor of the SNP series. Curtis was born in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

. She obtained her MA in Near Eastern Archaeology and Ancient Iranian Languages from the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

and her PhD on

Parthian art Parthian art was Persian art, Iranian art made during the Parthian Empire from 247 BC to 224 AD, based in the Near East. It has a mixture of Persian and Hellenistic art, Hellenistic influences. For some time after the period of the Parthian Empi ...

from

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. In 1983-2003 Curtis was the Joint Editor of '' Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies'', in 1998-2003 Secretary of the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), in 2006-2011 President of BIPS, and in 2005-2010 secretary of the

Royal Numismatic Society The Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) is a learned society and charity based in London, United Kingdom which promotes research into all branches of numismatics. Its patron was Queen Elizabeth II. Membership Foremost collectors and researchers, bo ...

. Curtis is a member of the Academic Committee of the

Iran Heritage Foundation The Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) is a United Kingdom–registered charity was founded in 1995 in London. The mission is to promote and preserve the history, languages and cultures of Iran and the Persianate world, covering all periods of Iran ...

(IHF). Curtis is the honorary director of the British Institute of Persian Studies. She is married to John Curtis, CEO of the Iran Heritage Foundation and the British Museum Keeper of Special Middle East Projects. Curtis has taken part in expert panels on

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four times.

Selected publications

* ''Rivalling Rome. Parthian Coins and Culture'', by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Alexandra Magub (Spink, 2020). ISBN 9781912667444 * * * * *

References

External links

Who's Who, ''Coins Weekly''

Academia.edu

British Museum staff page

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British curators British women academics Employees of the British Museum People from Tehran Iranologists British people of Iranian descent British numismatists British art historians University of Göttingen alumni Alumni of University College London