Mabel Lang

Mabel Lang
Born	1917 (1917)
Died	July 21, 2010 (aged 92–93)
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Bryn Mawr College
Scientific career
Fields	Classical Greek archaeology
Institutions	University of Cincinnati, Bryn Mawr College

Mabel Louise Lang (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 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)

External Links

• "Legendary professor of greek mabel Lang Dies at 93". Archived from the original on July 24, 2010.

References

• Dyson, Stephen L. (1998). Ancient marbles to American shores: classical archaeology in the United States. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812234466.

• 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 9780521398305.

• "Mabel Lang death notice". Archived from the original on July 23, 2010.