About: Lady Hester Stanhope

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Noblewoman; British aristocrat, antiquarian and archaeologist (1776–1839)

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  • 1776-03-12 (xsd:date)
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  • 1776-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • 1839-06-23 (xsd:date)
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  • 1839-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • ദേശപരിവേക്ഷകന്‍ (ml)
  • ysgrifennwr, archeolegydd, anthropolegydd, fforiwr (1776-1839) (cy)
  • Engelse ontdekkingsreiziger (nl)
  • aristòcrata anglesa, viatgera, exploradora (ca)
  • arqueologista inglesa (pt)
  • brytyjska podróżniczka (pl)
  • noble; arqueóloga británica (es)
  • британская авантюристка и путешественница (ru)
  • viaggiatrice e avventuriera britannica (it)
  • noblewoman; British aristocrat, antiquarian and archaeologist (1776–1839) (en)
  • aristocrate anglaise devenue aventurière au Proche-Orient (1776–1839) (fr)
  • britische „Königin der Wüste“ und „Mystery Lady of the Orient“ (de)
  • باستان شناس انگلیسی (fa)
  • عالمة آثار بريطانية (ar)
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  • 1776-03-12 (xsd:date)
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  • 1839-06-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Lady Hester Stanhope (en)
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  • adventurer, writer, antiquarian (en)
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  • Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope: The First Modern Excavator of the Holy Land (en)
  • Restoring the Reputation of Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, Neil Asher Silberman, BAR 10:04, July-August 1984. (en)
  • Restoring the Reputation of Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (en)
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  • Stanhope was not digging the ruins in Ashkelon for her own personal greed and gain. She appeared to be doing so in order to elevate the region of the world she had come to call home, looking to return the gold to the Ottoman Sultan. Also, the destruction of the statue was done in order to prove her devotion and disprove the idea that she was just trying to pillage Palestine for Britain. Likewise, her excavations were quite methodical, well recorded for the time, and the statue was documented before its destruction. All of these things were unusual techniques for the time, and thus makes Stanhope’s excavation unique and valuable to history. I quite agree with Silberman’s conclusion that Stanhope’s excavation "might be rightfully called the first modern excavation in the history of archaeological exploration of the Holy Land". (en)
  • The statue dug up by Lady Hester at Ashkelon was therefore a dangerously tempting prize. Though headless and fragmentary, it was the first Greco-Roman artifact ever excavated in the Holy Land, a distinction that even Dr. Meryon recognized. Meryon was overjoyed with this discovery, and he supposed it to be the statue of a "deified king", perhaps one of the successors of Alexander the Great or even Herod himself. But Lady Hester did not share her physician’s antiquarian enthusiasm, for she had a great deal personally at stake. She feared that if she paid too much attention to it, "malicious people might say I came to look for statues for my countrymen, and not for treasures for the [Sublime] Porte", the customary phrase to describe the palace of the Sultan himself. (en)
  • [Lady Stanhope] and Meryon correctly analyzed the history of the structure in Ashkelon before methods of modern archaeological analyses were known or used. (en)
  • In what might be rightfully called the first stratigraphical analysis of an archaeological site, [Meryon] reported that "there was every reason to believe that, in the changes of masters which Ascalon had undergone, the place in which we were now digging had originally been a heathen temple, afterwards a church, and then a mosque". It must be remembered that at the same time in Greece, excavators blissfully ignorant of stratigraphy boasted only of the quantity and artistic quality of their finds. (en)
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  • Lady Hester Stanhope (en)
  • Hester Stanhope (ca)
  • الليدي هستر ستانهوب (ar)
  • Hester Stanhope (de)
  • Hester Stanhope (eu)
  • Hester Stanhope (es)
  • Esther Stanhope (fr)
  • Esther Stanhope (it)
  • Lady Hester Stanhope (in)
  • ヘスター・スタンホープ (ja)
  • Hester Stanhope (pl)
  • Hester Stanhope (nl)
  • Hester Stanhope (pt)
  • Hester Stanhope (sv)
  • Стэнхоуп, Эстер (ru)
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