Evelyn Lord Smithson

Evelyn Lord Smithson (born July 19, 1923; died March 9, 1992, in Amherst, New York) was a noted twentieth-century scholar of classics and Classical archaeology and an expert on Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece.

Evelyn Lord Smithson was educated at the University of Washington (1944) and at Bryn Mawr College where she took her Master's degree (1944) and her doctorate in Classical archaeology and ancient Greek in 1956. She was a student at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from 1948 to 1950.

She is particularly known for her work on Iron Age burials in the area of the ancient Agora of Athens and especially for excavating the grave of the so-called "Rich Athenian Lady".

Smithson held a number of professional appointments during her life. These included a posting at the Institute for Advanced Study (1951–1962), the University at Buffalo - SUNY (1962–1992), and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Provided by Wikipedia