Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt (August 7, 1906, in

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, April 13, 2003) was an American classical archaeologist and a scholar of

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architectural ornamentation and mouldings.

Biography

Born in

, Lucy Shoe Meritt was the daughter of William Napoleon Shoe and Mary Esther Dunning Shoe. She studied at

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(A.B. 1927, M.A. 1928, Ph.D. 1935). She continued her studies at the

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in Athens from 1929 to 1934. From 1937 to 1950 Meritt taught at

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. She was twice a fellow of the

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(1937 and 1950). She married Benjamin Dean Meritt at

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, on November 2, 1964. She worked at the

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and at Serra Orlando ( Morgantina) in

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. She served as editor of publications for the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from 1950 until 1972. In 1972, with her husband, Benjamin Dean Meritt's appointment to a professorship at the

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, she moved to Austin, Texas, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin from 1973 until her death. Meritt received the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement in 1977 from the

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. Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt died in Austin, Texas, and was buried at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery. The papers and scholarly archive of Lucy Shoe Meritt are preserved as a collection curated by the Alexander Architectural Archives, University of Texas Libraries,

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Lucy Shoe Meritt collection

Publications

* ''Profiles of Greek Mouldings'' (1936). * ''Profiles of Western Greek Mouldings'' (1952). * ''Etruscan and Roman Republican Mouldings'' (1965).
of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1939-1980''
(1984) * ''Etruscan and Republican Roman Mouldings'' (expanded ed., 2000) with Ingrid Edlund-Berry.

References

External links

Finding Aid to the Lucy Shoe Meritt collection at the Alexander Architectural Archives, University of Texas at Austin

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