Stephanie Dalley
Biographic Data
| ID | 509155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Dalley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Dalley |
| SIGNATURE | DALLEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Conspiracy to Murder Sennacherib? A Revision of Saa 18 100 in the Light of a Recent Join
SAA 18 100 (ABL 1091) is a cuneiform text that has been at the heart of historical reconstructions of the assassination of the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, since it was first properly studied by S. Parpola in 1979. In 2005, J. C. Fincke discovered a new fragment of the document (28-3-23 [K.21923]) and joined it to the then known fragment (80-7-19, 28). Fincke's join offers the opportunity to study the tablet anew. We present the first full scholar…
The City of Babylon: A History, c. 2000 BC – AD 116
The 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kingship under the empires of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids and the Parthians. Its city walls were declared to be a Wonder of the World while its ziggurat won fame as the Tower of Babel. Visitors to Berlin can admire its Ishtar Gate, and the supposed location of its elu…
The Primeval Flood Catastrophe. Origins and Early Development in Mesopotamian Tradition
The Primeval Flood Catastrophe. Origins and Early Development in Mesopotamian Tradition." Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 148(1), p. 70
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The Greek novelNinus andSemiramis: Its background in Assyrian and Seleucid history and monuments
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Gods from north-eastern and north-western Arabia in cuneiform texts from the First Sealand Dynasty, and a cuneiform inscription from Tell en-Naṣbeh, c .1500 BC
A cuneiform archive in the Schøyen collection dated around 1500 BC, mainly in the reign of Ayadaragalama, a king of the First Sealand Dynasty in Babylonia, was published in 2009. The claim of that king to be ‘king of the world’ is assessed, with implications of finding an abbreviated version of his name inscribed on a broken bronze circlet from Tell en-Naṣbeh in Palestine. Use of two divine names Anzak and Yau in personal names in the archive may…
Seven Naptanum -Texts from the Reign of Rim-Sin I of Larsa
Seven tablets from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad are edited here for the first time. They date early in the long reign of Rim-Sin I of Larsa, and presumably come from that site, modern Senkereh in southern Iraq. They throw light on rituals held in the palace, and on international relations through the envoys who attended.
Near Eastern Myths and Legends
Old Babylonian Prophecies at Uruk and Kish
Disease in Babylonia
The Archimedean Screw
The Archimedean Screw Dennis L. Simms and Stephanie Dalley To the Editor A sign at the exhibition Babylon at the British Museum in London (November 2008–March 2009) informed visitors that the Archimedean screw was probably invented in Iraq. The obvious source for this belief is an article by Stephanie Dalley. It is therefore necessary to examine her arguments, which derive, in the first instance, from her interpretation of an inscription in Akkad…
The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture (review)
Reviewed by: The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture Stephanie Dalley (bio) The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. By Francesca Rochberg. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvi+331. $70. Francesca Rochberg comes from the Chicago school of Assyriology. She has held prestigious fellowships, edited an important group of cuneiform texts, and written …
The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer (review)
Reviewed by: The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer Stephanie Dalley (bio) The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer. By Jean-Jacques Glassner, trans. Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii+266. $42. Did writing evolve from multiple stimuli into a script that represented a particular language? Or was it invented by a genius at a particular place and time? How did it happen? Jean-…
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Why Did Herodotus not Mention the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
In 1883, early in the days of deciphering cuneiform inscriptions, Archibald Sayce published a commentary on Herodotus' History Books 1-3, entitled The Ancient Empires of the East. He quoted authorities of his own time who questioned the reliability of Herodotus. Ctesias was reckoned a more trustworthy informant who ‘had good reason for accusing Herodotus of errors in his Assyrian history’. After all, Ctesias lived at the Persian court, and so he …
Rimah, Tell el
Sennacherib, Archimedes, and the Water Screw: The Context of Invention in the Ancient World
Invention of the water screw is traditionally credited to the third-century B.C. Greek scientist-engineer Archimedes, on the basis of numerous Greek and Latin texts and the technological context of Hellenistic Alexandria. An Assyrian text from the seventh century B.C. may be interpreted to show that king Sennacherib cast such a device in bronze at Nineveh, for use in his palace garden. Such an argument may be strengthened by comparison with detai…
Old Babylonian Tablets from Nineveh; And Possible Pieces of Early Gilgamesh Epic
The cuneiform tablets in the British Museum published here come from Old Babylonian Nineveh. A tablet from the Ashmolean Museum is also published here because its contents, reminiscent of the Epic of Gilgamesh, seem to link it with some of the British Museum fragments. Despite the fact that it was registered in the same year, the Ashmolean tablet almost certainly does not come from Nineveh, as the ductus is entirely different, and so is the clay.…
Sennacherib and Tarsus
The aim of the research presented in this paper was to find out more about Tarsus in the time of Sennacherib and his successors from a Mesopotamian standpoint, and to discover whether Assyrian influence persisted into subsequent periods. Two fragments of text attributed to the Babylonian priest Berossus, who lived in Babylon under Antiochus I, have been transmitted by Eusebius and were attributed to Polyhistor and to Abydenus as intermediaries. T…
The Legacy of Mesopotamia
Stephanie Dalley explores the spread of culture through literacy from Mesopotamia into Egypt, Palestine and Greece after a system of writing was developed. By gathering evidence from a vast range of material and literary sources from 3000 BC onwards, threads of influence and continuity are traced into the Middle Ages. The effect of rediscovery in recent times is evident in European art
Herodotos and Babylon
Nineveh, Babylon and the Hanging Gardens: Cuneiform and Classical Sources Reconciled
Classical sources describing the Hanging Gardens give a wealth of detail which has never matched up with information from cuneiform sources or archaeological finds. This study reconciles them. In doing so it shows how some confusions in Classical accounts may have their origin in Akkadian sources, and are not due simply to misunderstanding and error.The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the world in Classical tradition, were…
Ancient Mesopotamian Gardens and the Identification of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon Resolved
tamarisk. Meals are enjoyed in the shade of the tamarisk, skilled men gather in the shade of the date-palm, the drum is beaten, men give praise, and the king rejoices in his palace. The two trees, brother and sister, are quite different; the tamarisk and the palm-tree compete with each other. They argue and quarrel together. The tamarisk says: 'I am much bigger!' And the date-palm argues back, saying: 'I am much better than you! You, O tamarisk, …
Tablets from the Vicinity of Emar and Elsewhere
The cuneiform Akkadian tablets published here belong to a private collector in England. They were bought from a dealer in 1981. Most of them are closely associated by prosopography, seal impressions and types of text with those excavated at Meskene, ancient Emar on the Euphrates, and published comprehensively by D. Arnaud, in: Recherches au Pays d'Aštata, Emar VI. 1–4 (Paris 1985–7), as well as a few now in private hands and published in various …
Gilgamesh in the Arabian Nights
It is difficult to lose a good story. Many of the best folk tales transcend the boundaries of language and nationality, and the Gilgamesh Epic, attested in Human, Hittite, Elamite and Akkadian cuneiform, is no exception. The latest Akkadian tablets to be inscribed with the story come from the site of Uruk of the late Babylonian period, some time after the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. and perhaps as late as the Seleurid period, after the reign of A…
Sennacherib, Archimedes, and the Water Screw: The Context of Invention in the Ancient World
Invention of the water screw is traditionally credited to the third-century B.C. Greek scientist-engineer Archimedes, on the basis of numerous Greek and Latin texts and the technological context of Hellenistic Alexandria. An Assyrian text from the seventh century B.C. may be interpreted to show that king Sennacherib cast such a device in bronze at Nineveh, for use in his palace garden. Such an argument may be strengthened by comparison with detai…
Herodotos and Babylon
Gods from north-eastern and north-western Arabia in cuneiform texts from the First Sealand Dynasty, and a cuneiform inscription from Tell en-Naṣbeh, c .1500 BC
A cuneiform archive in the Schøyen collection dated around 1500 BC, mainly in the reign of Ayadaragalama, a king of the First Sealand Dynasty in Babylonia, was published in 2009. The claim of that king to be ‘king of the world’ is assessed, with implications of finding an abbreviated version of his name inscribed on a broken bronze circlet from Tell en-Naṣbeh in Palestine. Use of two divine names Anzak and Yau in personal names in the archive may…
The Archimedean Screw
The Archimedean Screw Dennis L. Simms and Stephanie Dalley To the Editor A sign at the exhibition Babylon at the British Museum in London (November 2008–March 2009) informed visitors that the Archimedean screw was probably invented in Iraq. The obvious source for this belief is an article by Stephanie Dalley. It is therefore necessary to examine her arguments, which derive, in the first instance, from her interpretation of an inscription in Akkad…
Sennacherib and Tarsus
The aim of the research presented in this paper was to find out more about Tarsus in the time of Sennacherib and his successors from a Mesopotamian standpoint, and to discover whether Assyrian influence persisted into subsequent periods. Two fragments of text attributed to the Babylonian priest Berossus, who lived in Babylon under Antiochus I, have been transmitted by Eusebius and were attributed to Polyhistor and to Abydenus as intermediaries. T…
Gilgamesh in the Arabian Nights
It is difficult to lose a good story. Many of the best folk tales transcend the boundaries of language and nationality, and the Gilgamesh Epic, attested in Human, Hittite, Elamite and Akkadian cuneiform, is no exception. The latest Akkadian tablets to be inscribed with the story come from the site of Uruk of the late Babylonian period, some time after the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. and perhaps as late as the Seleurid period, after the reign of A…
Ancient Assyrian Textiles and the Origins of Carpet Design
Donnees sur les textiles de l'Assyrie a travers notamment les representations figurees et influence de ceux-ci sur les motifs des tapis
Seals from the Hutchinson Collection
The cylinder and stamp seals published here belong to a collection bequeathed to the late R. W. Hutchinson by Olga Petrovna, Baroness da Maydell. She had bought them from various dealers both in the Middle East and in Europe, probably all between the two World Wars. Mr. Hutchinson invited me to publish some of those that came from Mesopotamia during historic times, and planned to publish the prehistoric stamp seals himself. The collection include…
Old Babylonian Greetings Formulae and the Iltani Archive from Rimah
An Assyrian Stela Fragment
The fragment published here is of black stone, from Mosul Museum, registered IM 55640, where the writer saw it on display in 1967. It comes from a stela that was probably similar in shape to most other neo-Assyrian stelae, and it records not only a military event and the king's name, but also a royal grant of land.
Old Babylonian Trade in Textiles at Tell al Rimah
The archive of Iltani from Tell al Rimah in northern Iraq consists of 150 letters and fifty economic records. It almost certainly falls within the period of Cappadocian trade known as Kültepe Ib; one līmu name, Ṣabrum, is common to this archive and the texts of Kültepe Ib. This single name cannot be considered a certain link, since it has no patronymic in the records of Iltani; however, the name Kaneš occurs in two of the letters, and this gives …
Old Babylonian Dowries
Hammurapi's Code of Laws says that a woman who lived in the Old Babylonian period brought a dowry with her from her father's house when she married. The laws specify that if the marriage failed, and she was not to blame, she kept her dowry for any subsequent marriage. If she died, her sons or (if she had none) her father's family, not her husband, inherited it. Some texts that list dowries of the Old Babylonian period, and texts of related or sim…
The Old Babylonian Tablets from Al-Rimah
This review article of the editio princeps of the OB texts found at Rimah concentrates on the archives that are contemporaneous with the rulers of Zimri-Lim of Mari and Hammurabi of Babylon.Since that edition did not present interpretations of the evidence, this review will overview the information that pertains to the social and political life of an Old Babylonian town. Inthe last decades, archaeologists have excavated a number of sites in the m…
Foreign Chariotry and Cavalry in the Armies of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II
The purpose of this paper is to present several pieces of evidence concerning Samarians, Urartians and Nubians, most of them in the royal army of Sargon II, following the fall of Samaria in 722 B.C. and its submission to Assyria. The main evidence is new, and comes from a small group of administrative cuneiform tablets, conveniently labelled Horse Lists, which have been published as Nos. 99-118 in volume III in the series Cuneiform Texts from Nim…
The God Salmu and the Winged Disk
The exact nature and function of the winged disk in Western Asia have been the subject of discussion and disagreement for over half a century. There is no shortage of evidence; representations are found over a very wide geographical and chronological span. However, a new monument has recently come to light in Arabia, and it affords an unparalleled context for the winged disk. This study investigates in detail the proposal made by Winnett in 1970,…
A Royal Kudurru from the Reign of Aššur-nādin-šumi
The Origins of the Manana Dynasty at Kish, and the Assyrian King List
The purpose of this article is to present a hypothesis that the moon-god, Sumerian Nanna, Akkadian Su'en or Sin, and Amorite Erah or Yarah, called Sin-Amurru in AbB II, 82:10-11, may have been the patron god of a major group of Amorites in the early Old Babylonian period, and to consider possible implications particularly in Kish and Assur. The work was mainly done by Wu Yuhong as part of his thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirem…
Gilgamesh in the Arabian Nights
It is difficult to lose a good story. Many of the best folk tales transcend the boundaries of language and nationality, and the Gilgamesh Epic, attested in Human, Hittite, Elamite and Akkadian cuneiform, is no exception. The latest Akkadian tablets to be inscribed with the story come from the site of Uruk of the late Babylonian period, some time after the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. and perhaps as late as the Seleurid period, after the reign of A…
Ancient Assyrian Textiles and the Origins of Carpet Design
Donnees sur les textiles de l'Assyrie a travers notamment les representations figurees et influence de ceux-ci sur les motifs des tapis
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh and Others
Atrahasis The Epic of Gilgamesh The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld Nergal and Ereshkigal Adapa Etana Anzu The Epic of Creation Theology of Dunnu Erra and Ishum
Tablets from the Vicinity of Emar and Elsewhere
The cuneiform Akkadian tablets published here belong to a private collector in England. They were bought from a dealer in 1981. Most of them are closely associated by prosopography, seal impressions and types of text with those excavated at Meskene, ancient Emar on the Euphrates, and published comprehensively by D. Arnaud, in: Recherches au Pays d'Aštata, Emar VI. 1–4 (Paris 1985–7), as well as a few now in private hands and published in various …
Ancient Mesopotamian Gardens and the Identification of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon Resolved
tamarisk. Meals are enjoyed in the shade of the tamarisk, skilled men gather in the shade of the date-palm, the drum is beaten, men give praise, and the king rejoices in his palace. The two trees, brother and sister, are quite different; the tamarisk and the palm-tree compete with each other. They argue and quarrel together. The tamarisk says: 'I am much bigger!' And the date-palm argues back, saying: 'I am much better than you! You, O tamarisk, …
Nineveh, Babylon and the Hanging Gardens: Cuneiform and Classical Sources Reconciled
Classical sources describing the Hanging Gardens give a wealth of detail which has never matched up with information from cuneiform sources or archaeological finds. This study reconciles them. In doing so it shows how some confusions in Classical accounts may have their origin in Akkadian sources, and are not due simply to misunderstanding and error.The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the world in Classical tradition, were…
Herodotos and Babylon
Sennacherib and Tarsus
The aim of the research presented in this paper was to find out more about Tarsus in the time of Sennacherib and his successors from a Mesopotamian standpoint, and to discover whether Assyrian influence persisted into subsequent periods. Two fragments of text attributed to the Babylonian priest Berossus, who lived in Babylon under Antiochus I, have been transmitted by Eusebius and were attributed to Polyhistor and to Abydenus as intermediaries. T…
The Legacy of Mesopotamia
Stephanie Dalley explores the spread of culture through literacy from Mesopotamia into Egypt, Palestine and Greece after a system of writing was developed. By gathering evidence from a vast range of material and literary sources from 3000 BC onwards, threads of influence and continuity are traced into the Middle Ages. The effect of rediscovery in recent times is evident in European art
Old Babylonian Tablets from Nineveh; And Possible Pieces of Early Gilgamesh Epic
The cuneiform tablets in the British Museum published here come from Old Babylonian Nineveh. A tablet from the Ashmolean Museum is also published here because its contents, reminiscent of the Epic of Gilgamesh, seem to link it with some of the British Museum fragments. Despite the fact that it was registered in the same year, the Ashmolean tablet almost certainly does not come from Nineveh, as the ductus is entirely different, and so is the clay.…
Why Did Herodotus not Mention the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
In 1883, early in the days of deciphering cuneiform inscriptions, Archibald Sayce published a commentary on Herodotus' History Books 1-3, entitled The Ancient Empires of the East. He quoted authorities of his own time who questioned the reliability of Herodotus. Ctesias was reckoned a more trustworthy informant who ‘had good reason for accusing Herodotus of errors in his Assyrian history’. After all, Ctesias lived at the Persian court, and so he …
Rimah, Tell el
Sennacherib, Archimedes, and the Water Screw: The Context of Invention in the Ancient World
Invention of the water screw is traditionally credited to the third-century B.C. Greek scientist-engineer Archimedes, on the basis of numerous Greek and Latin texts and the technological context of Hellenistic Alexandria. An Assyrian text from the seventh century B.C. may be interpreted to show that king Sennacherib cast such a device in bronze at Nineveh, for use in his palace garden. Such an argument may be strengthened by comparison with detai…
Buchbesprechungen
The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer (review)
Reviewed by: The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer Stephanie Dalley (bio) The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer. By Jean-Jacques Glassner, trans. Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii+266. $42. Did writing evolve from multiple stimuli into a script that represented a particular language? Or was it invented by a genius at a particular place and time? How did it happen? Jean-…
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