[3] Lamb, Lillian Tennant and Hilda Lorimer were the first women to participate in an excavation conducted by the British School at Athens.
[4] The excavation, led by Richard Dawkins, the director of the British School, was conducted from March to May 1911, with Lamb and Tennant beginning fieldwork after 16 April.
She finished her work on her catalogue in 1912 and the first volume, edited by Guy Dickens,[6] was published that year by Cambridge University Press.
[1] Later in 1912, Lamb travelled to the United States and spent a year lecturing on classical archaeology at Bryn Mawr College.
[2] From 1913 to 1914, as recipient of Newnham College's Mary Ewart Travelling Scholarship, Lamb returned to Athens to continue work on the revisions to her catalogue.
[1] Although Lamb began a study of Islamic architecture in Konya between 1914 and 1916, the outbreak of the First World War "brought a promising academic career to an end".