Mabel Lang
Encyclopedia
Mabel Louise Lang was an American archaeologist
and scholar of Classical Greek and Mycenae
an 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 Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1943.
Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...
and scholar of Classical Greek and Mycenae
Mycenae
Mycenae is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 11 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north...
an culture. She served on the faculty of Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn Mawr" means "big hill" in Welsh....
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
Linear B
Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, an early form of Greek. It pre-dated the Greek alphabet by several centuries and seems to have died out with the fall of Mycenaean civilization...
inscriptions found at Pylos
Pylos
Pylos , historically known under its Italian name Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It was the capital of the former...
. She received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1943.
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)