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Cf. Fani-Maria Tsigakou, The Rediscovery of Greece (New Rochelle, New York, 1981), pp. 22–3, and William St. Clair, Lord Elgin and the Marbles (New York, 1967), pp. 203–4.

For the history of antiquarianism and the early development of classical archaeology, see Glyn Daniel, A Hundred and Fifty Years of Archaeology, pp. 16–21.

Meryon, Travels, Vol. 3, p. 85.

Meryon, Travels, Vol. 3, p. 87.

Cf. Hamel, Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, p. 129.

The primary source of information about the purpose, plan and progress of the Ashkelon dig is the account written by Lady Hester’s personal physician, Charles Lewis Meryon, The Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope (London, 1846), Vol. 3, pp. 86–187.

The punctuation of the Masoretic Text followed here yields better sense than the common modern practice of editing the text according to strictly metrical considerations (Biblia Hebraica [Kittel], Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, etc.).

See Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, pp. 138–44; P. Miller, The Divine Warrior in Early Israel (Harvard University: Cambridge, 1973), pp. 113–117; S. Norin, “Er Spaltete das Meer: Die Auszugsüberlieferung in Psalmen und Kult des Alten Israel,” Coniectanea Biblica, Old Testament Series 9 (C.W.K. Gleerup: Lund, 1977), pp. 77–107.