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American archaeologist
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Female
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Birth:
12 November 1917(Utica, USA)
Death:
21 July 2010(Bryn Mawr, USA)
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Cornell University
Bryn Mawr College
Columbia University
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Biography
Introduction
Mabel Louise Lang (November 12, 1917 – 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.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.
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)