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.[7] She was also the first, in 1969, to attempt to interpret the patterns on the painted floors of the
megaron at Pylos, suggesting that the designs represented different types of stone.[8] As well as her publications on the
Bronze Age frescoes and Linear B tablets at Pylos, she also wrote works on the Greek
historiographersHerodotus and
Thucydides, and on the excavations of the Athenian
Agora with the
American School of Classical Studies at Athens,[3] on which she worked as an archaeologist.[9] In 1982 she delivered the Martin Classical Lectures at
Oberlin College, and these were later published as Herodotean Narrative and Discourse.[10]
The body of unfinished work which she left at her death was published posthumously by her colleagues in 2011 as Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse.[3]
A memorial for her was held at Bryn Mawr College on April 3, 2011.
Selected works
The Athenian Citizen (1960, revised 2004 by John McK. Camp II). Princeton, N.J.: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
The Athenian Agora Volume x: Athenian Weights, Measures, and Tokens (1964, with
Margaret Crosby) Princeton, N.J.: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia: Vol. II, The Frescoes (1966). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press for the University of Cincinnati.
^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.
ISBN9780521398305.
^Egan, Emily C. (2016). "Textiles and stone patterns in the painted floors of the Mycenean palaces". In Shaw, Maria C.; Chapin, Anne P. (eds.). Woven Threads: Patterned Textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age. Oxford: Oxbow Books. pp. 131–147.
ISBN9781785700583.
^Dyson, Stephen L. (1998). Ancient Marbles to American Shores: Classical Archaeology in the United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 247.
ISBN0812234464.