Background
Mellink, Machteld Johanna was born on October 26, 1917 in Amsterdam, Holland. Came to the United States, 1949. Daughter of Johan and Machteld (Kruyff) Mellink.
(The built and elaborately painted chamber tomb at Kizilbe...)
The built and elaborately painted chamber tomb at Kizilbel in Northern Lycia, Turkey, had been robbed in ancient and modern times before the archaeological team from Bryn Mawr College began rescue excavations in 1969, but the excavations still yielded some spectacular results. This volume reports on the excavation of the tumulus and tomb, and describes in detail the architecture of the tomb and the paintings within it. Dated to the 6th century BC, the wall and floor paintings contain many "East-Greek" features, in the style of painting and in the costume and equipment of the human figures, while the iconography appears to make reference to both Greek and local Anatolian mythology. Two short appendices discuss the restoration and conservation of the paintings, and the skeletal remains from the tomb.
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(Proceedings of a symposium held at Bryn Mawr College in 1...)
Proceedings of a symposium held at Bryn Mawr College in 1986. Includes 'Priam's Castle Blazing': A Thousand Years of Trojan Memories' (Emily Vermeule) and 'The Physical Identity of the Trojans' (Lawrence Angel).
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Mellink, Machteld Johanna was born on October 26, 1917 in Amsterdam, Holland. Came to the United States, 1949. Daughter of Johan and Machteld (Kruyff) Mellink.
Bachelor, University Amsterdam, 1938. Master of Arts, University Amsterdam, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 1943.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1987. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Anatolian University, Turkey, 1990.
Mellink received her undergraduate training at the University of Amsterdam and her doctorate from Utrecht in 1943. Mellink moved to Bryn Mawr College in the 1946 as a Marion Reilly Fellow and spent the summer of 1947 at the University of Chicago on a Ryerson Grant. During this time she began excavating with Hetty Goldman at Tarsus, in southern Turkey.
She began teaching in Bryn Mawr College"s Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology in 1949 and retired in 1988.
In 1972 she was appointed to the Leslie Clark Chair in the Humanities. From 1950 until 1965 she was involved in the excavations at Gordium, Turkey, together with Rodney Young of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mellink"s most well-known work focused on the site of Karatas-Semayük in the Elmali plain in Lycia where she explored Early Bronze Age remains and tombs. Mellink was professor emerita of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College.
The Ministry of Culture of Turkey recognized her as the Senior American Excavator in 1984 and the Senior Foreign Archaeologist in 1985.
In 2001, the Archaeological Institute of America established in her honor the Machteld Mellink Lecture in Near Eastern Archaeology. Bryn Mawr College awarded her the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1975. "Machteld J. Mellink, 88, Archaeologist, Dies" New York Times March 6, 2006
"Machteld Johanna Mellink, 1917-2006", Greenwalt, C.H.Jr., American Journal of Archaeology 111(3), July, 2007, pp.
(The built and elaborately painted chamber tomb at Kizilbe...)
(Proceedings of a symposium held at Bryn Mawr College in 1...)
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Archaeol. Institute American (president 1981-1984, gold medal 1991), German Archaeol. Institute, American Oriental Society, American Philosophical Society.
Correspondent member Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Austrian Archaeol. Institute (correspondent), Türk Tarih Kurumu (honorary), American Research Institute Turkey (vice president 1977-1987, president 1988-1992).