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.[3]
- ^ Biographical details are drawn from: Fox, Margalit (October 16, 2004). "Phyllis Williams Lehmann, 91, Archaeologist of Samothrace, Dies". The New York Times.
- ^ The Hellenistic statue, of the second century BCE, found in three large sections, is conserved in the museum at the Samothrace site.
- ^ She identified them in 1950, in a drawer at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; an Austrian team in the 1870s had recovered a Roman Victory in the 1870s, and the unidentified fingers, not part of that sculpture, had been stored and forgotten.