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in 1943, when she also joined the faculty of the college. She was a faculty member there until 1991 and professor emerita until her death. She was appointed as
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Egan, Emily C. (2016). "Textiles and stone patterns in the painted floors of the Mycenean palaces". In Shaw, Maria C.; Chapin, Anne P. (eds.).
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Less controversial is the interpretation of the tablets found at Pylos in 1956–8, which were published by Miss Mabel Lang in the
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She was the author of several books on Classical Greek law and culture, and was a contributor to the deciphering of the
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The body of unfinished work which she left at her death was published posthumously by her colleagues in 2011 as
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at Pylos, suggesting that the designs represented different types of stone. As well as her publications on the
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Ancient Marbles to American Shores: Classical Archaeology in the United States
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frescoes and Linear B tablets at Pylos, she also wrote works on the Greek
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The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia: Vol. II, The Frescoes
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The Athenian Agora Volume x: Athenian Weights, Measures, and Tokens
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A memorial for her was held at Bryn Mawr College on April 3, 2011.
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Professor of Greek in 1971. That same year, she was elected to the
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Cure and Cult in Ancient Corinth : A Guide to the Asklepieion
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Woven Threads: Patterned Textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age
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American archaeologist and classical scholar (1917–2010)
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The Athenian Agora Volume xxi: Graffiti and Dipinti
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Columbia University
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College
archaeologist
Classical Greek
Mycenaean
Cornell University
PhD
Bryn Mawr College
Paul Shorey
American Philosophical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Linear B
Pylos
megaron
Bronze Age
historiographers
Herodotus
Thucydides
Agora
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Oberlin College
The Athenian Citizen
Margaret Crosby
Waterworks in the Athenian Agora
Graffiti in the Athenian Agora
Cure and Cult in Ancient Corinth : A Guide to the Asklepieion
Socrates in the Agora
Life, Death and Litigation in the Athenian Agora

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