Mabel Lang

Mabel Louise Lang (November 12, 1917^[1] – July 21, 2010) was an American archaeologist and scholar of Classical Greek and Mycenaean culture. She served on the faculty of Bryn Mawr College until 1991 and was professor emerita there until her death. She was the author of several books on Classical Greek law and culture, and was a contributor to the deciphering of the Linear B inscriptions found at Pylos.^[2] She received her A.B. from Columbia University in 1939 and her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1943. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981.^[3]

Selected works

• The Athenian citizen (1960, revised 2004 by John McK. Camp II)
• Weights, measures, and tokens (1964)
• Palace of Nestor at Pylos in western Messenia (1966)
• Waterworks in the Athenian Agora (1968)
• Graffiti in the Athenian Agora (1974, revised 1988)
• Graffiti and dipinti (1975)
• Cure and cult in ancient Corinth : a guide to the Asklepieion (1977)
• Socrates in the Agora (1978)
• Herodotean narrative and discourse (1984)
• Ostraka (1990)
• Life, death and litigation in the Athenian Agora (1994)

References

• Dyson, Stephen L. (1998). Ancient marbles to American shores: classical archaeology in the United States. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3446-6.
• Chadwick, John; Ventris, Michael (1963). The Decipherment of Linear B. Vintage Books. Less controversial is the interpretation of the tablets found at Pylos in 1956–8, which were published by Miss Mabel Lang in the American Journal of Archaeology in 1958 and 1959. Republished as Chadwick, John (1990). The Decipherment of Linear B. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-39830-5.
• "Mabel Lang death notice". Archived from the original on July 23, 2010.

External links

• Mabel Lang at the Database of Classical Scholars
• "Legendary professor of Greek Mabel Lang Dies at 92". Archived from the original on July 31, 2010.