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New York University; Wellesley College. Smith College.
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Phyllis Lehmann
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Phyllis Williams Lehmann, was an American classical archaeologist who specialised in the Samothrace temple complex, where she discovered a third statue of Winged Victory, which is kept today at the Archaeological Museum of Samothrace and recovered missing fingers of the hand of the famous Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre.
Career
Williams received a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College in 1934. She first visited Samothrace in 1938, as a doctoral student on the New York University team led by Karl Lehmann. She was assistant field director of the excavations at Samothrace 1948–1960 and acting director 1960–1965, and she remained closely involved with Samothrace for the rest of her career.
In 1970 she retired to her home in Haydenville, Massachusetts, where she died in 2004.
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences]
She was a member of the faculty of Smith College from 1946 to 1978 and was Dean there from 1965 to 1970.
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