Stephanie Mary Dalley | |
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Born | Stephanie Mary Page March 1943 (age 81) |
Nationality | British |
Title | Former Shillito Fellow in Assyriology Honorary Senior Fellow of Somerville College Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries |
Spouse | Christopher Dalley |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge SOAS |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Assyriology Archaeology |
Institutions | University of Oxford (Faculty of Oriental Studies, Somerville College) |
Stephanie Mary Dalley FSA (née Page; March 1943) is a British Assyriologist and scholar of the Ancient Near East. Prior to her retirement, she was a teaching Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Oxford. She 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.