Stephanie Mary Dalley FSA is a British Assyriologist and scholar of the Ancient Near East.
16 Facts About Stephanie Dalley
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Stephanie Dalley is known for her publications of cuneiform texts and her investigation into the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and her proposal that it was situated in Nineveh, and constructed during Sennacherib's rule.
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From 1979 to 2007, Stephanie Dalley taught Akkadian and Sumerian at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, being appointed Shillito Fellow in Assyriology in 1988.
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Stephanie Dalley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of Somerville College, a member of Common Room at Wolfson College, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
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Stephanie Dalley took part in archaeological excavations in the Aegean, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Turkey.
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Stephanie Dalley has published extensively, both technical editions of texts from excavations and national museums, and more general books.
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Stephanie Dalley published her own translations of the main Babylonian myths: Atrahasis, Anzu, The Descent of Ishtar, Gilgamesh, The Epic of Creation, Erra and Ishum.
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Stephanie Dalley showed that the name Ataliya was of Hebrew origin.
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Stephanie Dalley concluded that these women, probably mother and daughter as they had been buried together, were Judean princesses, probably relatives of King Hezekiah of Jerusalem, given in diplomatic marriage to the Assyrian Kings.
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Stephanie Dalley could speak in Hebrew because he had learned it at his mother's knee.
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In several academic articles Stephanie Dalley has traced the influence of Mesopotamian culture in the Hebrew Old Testament, early Greek epics, and the Arabian Nights.
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Stephanie Dalley has noted the appearance of the name Gilgamesh in the Book of Enoch.
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Stephanie Dalley has suggested, based on eighteen years of textual study, that the Garden was built not at Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar, but in Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrians, by Sennacherib, around 2700 years ago.
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Stephanie Dalley deciphered Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform, and reinterpreted later Greek and Roman texts, and determined that a crucial seventh century BC inscription had been mistranslated.
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Stephanie Dalley compiled these conclusions into her book The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced, published in 2013.
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Stephanie Dalley published in 2009 an archive of some 470 newly found cuneiform texts and deduced that they had originated in a southern Mesopotamian kingdom previously known only as the Sea land which flourished c 1,500 BC.