Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt (August 7, 1906, in Camden, New Jersey – Austin, Texas, April 13, 2003) was an American classical archaeologist and a scholar of Greek architectural ornamentation and mouldings.
She married Benjamin Dean Meritt at Princeton, New Jersey, on November 2, 1964.
[3][4] 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.
[7] The papers and scholarly archive of Lucy Shoe Meritt are preserved as a collection curated by the Alexander Architectural Archives, University of Texas Libraries, University of Texas at Austin.