Emeline Hill Richardson

Emeline Hill Richardson (born June 6, 1910 in Buffalo , New York , USA , † August 29, 1999 in Durham , North Carolina , USA) was an American archaeologist .

Life

Emeline Hill graduated from Radcliffe College , graduated with first degree (AB) in 1932 and second (AM) in 1935. In 1935/36 she studied with Bernard Ashmole at the University of London . Your Ph.D. received it in 1939 from Radcliffe College. From 1941 to 1949 she was a lecturer at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. In 1950 Emeline Hill received a scholarship from the American Academy in Rome and took part in the excavations in Cosa until 1955 . In 1952 she married the excavator Lawrence Richardson Jr. In 1955 the couple returned to the United States and Emeline Hill Richardson taught at Yale University and as a visiting professor at Stanford University . From 1968 to 1979 she was Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of North Carolina .

One of her scientific focuses was Etruscology . She was u. a. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the Archaeological Institute of America , the American Philological Association and corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) .

Publications (selection)

• with Frank Edward Brown, Lawrence Richardson Jr .: Cosa II. The Temples of the Arx (= Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Volume 26). American Academy in Rome, Rome 1960.
• The Etruscans. Their Art and Civilization. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1964.
• Etruscan Votive Bronzes. Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic. Von Zabern, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-8053-0546-X .
• with Frank Edward Brown, Lawrence Richardson Jr .: Cosa III. The Buildings of the Forum (= Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Volume 37). Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania 1993, ISBN 0-271-00825-3 .

obituary

• Lawrence Richardson Jr. in the American Journal of Archeology . Volume 104, 2000, p. 125.