Sterling Dow
Date of Birth :
1903-19-11
Place of Birth :
Portland,Maine
Country :
United States
Field of Expertise :
Athenian archaeology
Educational background :
Graduated at Phillips Exeter Academy with honors in philosophy.
Master's degree in 1928 at Harvard University.
Ph.D. in 1936.
Acheivements / Contributions :
Dow had a great range of study, writing five books and over 150 articles on Athenian political and social institutions, Homeric poems, religious calendars, and early writing and literacy.
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During an archeological field trip to Greece from 1931 to 1936 he developed the art of making "squeezes," or paper impressions of inscriptions, discovered the kleroterion, a machine used to randomly select 201-man juries in ancient Greece.
He deducted that the famous Linear B tablets of the 2000 B.C. were inscribed with an early form of Greek, which was proven to be correct when they were later deciphered in 1953.
source:
Sterling Dow
Bibliography :
Fifty Years of Sathers,Maine Postal History and Postmarks ,
Prytaneis: A Study of the Inscriptions Honoring the Athenian Councillors (Hesperia Supplement).
