Phyllis Williams Lehmann

Phyllis Williams Lehmann, (November 30, 1912 – September 29, 2004)[1] was an American classical archaeologist who specialised in the Samothrace temple complex, where she discovered a third statue of Winged Victory (1949), which is kept today at the Archaeological Museum of Samothrace[2] and recovered missing fingers of the hand of the famous Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre.

[1] She first visited Samothrace in 1938, as a doctoral student on the New York University Institute of Fine Arts team led by professor Karl Leo Heinrich Lehmann.

Among her publications are The Pedimental Sculptures of the Hieron in Samothrace (1962) and Samothrace III: The Hieron, (1969), which was awarded the Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Historians in 1969.

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979.

[4] In 1970 she retired to her home in Haydenville, Massachusetts, where she died of congestive heart failure on September 29, 2004.