Position:

Retired (formerly Senior Research Fellow in Assyriology)

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / Somerville College

Email:

stephanie.dalley@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Akkadian literature and history

Current Projects:

• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (book)
• Texts of the First Sealand Dynasty in the Schøyen Collection (book)

Courses Taught:

• Akkadian Set Texts and Background Lectures for the BA and MPhil courses, as required.

Recent Publications:

• F.N.H. Al-Rawi and S. Dalley, Old Babylonian Texts from Private Houses at Abu Habbah, Ancient Sippir: NABU Publications 2000
• The legacy of Mesopotamia, Oxford; Oxford University Press 1998 (Chinese translation forthcoming)
• Myths from Mesopotamia, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997. Also published in Arabic by Besan Publishing, Beirut. Arabic translation by Najwa Nasr
• "Old Babylonian Texts in the Ashmolean Museum", Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts vol. XV: OUP 2004
• "Sennacherib, Archimedes and the Water Screw: The Context of Invention in the Ancient World" in Technology and Culture 44/1 pp1-26 (with J.P. Oleson)
• "Semiramis in History and Legend. A case study in interpretation of an Assyrian historical tradition". Paper given at a conference in Elmau, Bavaria, Oriens et Occidens 8, ed. E. Gruen, 11-22, 2005
• Contributions "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon" and "Mesopotamia, ancient" to Oxford Companion to the Garden, 2006
• "The Language of Destruction and its Interpretation". Paper given at the 4th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Berlin, Baghader Mitteilungen 36, 2005, 275-285.
• Book, "Esther's Revenge at Susa", showing that the biblical book of Esther comes from an Assyrian court narrative rootes in specific historical events. Oxford University Press 2007

Further Info:

• Radio programme recording: on Babylon; and on the Gilgamesh epic, 2006
• TV programme on Assyrian Lion-hunts, Channel 4, 2006.