Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt

Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt (born 1906, died Austin, Texas, April 13, 2003) was a classical archaeologist and a scholar of Greek architectural ornamentation and mouldings.

Lucy Shoe Meritt studied at Bryn Mawr College, A.B. 1927, M.A. 1928, Ph.D. 1935. She studied at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from 1929 to 1934. From 1937 to 1950 Meritt taught at Mount Holyoke College. She was twice a fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1937 and 1950). She worked at the Roman site of Cosa and at Serra Orlando (Morgantina) in Sicily. She served as editor of publications for the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from 1950 until 1972. In 1972 she moved to Austin, Texas, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin from 1973 until her death.

Publications

* "Profiles of Greek Mouldings" (1936).
* "Profiles of Western Greek Mouldings" (1952).
* "Etruscan and Roman Republican Mouldings" (1965).
* w/ Ingrid Edlund-Berry "Etruscan and Republican Roman Mouldings" (expanded ed., 2000).

References

* [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utaaa/00031/aaa-00031.html Lucy Shoe Meritt: An Inventory of her Collection, Including Manuscripts, Original Drawings, Plates, and Photographs, 1929-1970, 1995-1997]