Semni Karouzou

Semni Karouzou
Σέμνη Καρούζου
Born	Polysemni Papaspyridi 1897 (1897) Tripoli, Greece
Died	8 December 1994(1994-12-08) (aged 96–97)
Occupation(s)	Archaeologist and curator
Spouse	Christos Karouzos
Academic work
Discipline	Greek Archaeology
Sub-discipline	Ceramics
Institutions	National Archaeological Museum, Athens Greek Archaeological Service

Semni Papaspyridi-Karouzou (Greek: Σέμνη Παπασπυρίδη-Καρούζου; 1897 – 8 December 1994) was a Greek classical archaeologist who specialized in the study of pottery from ancient Greece. She was the first woman to join the Greek Archaeological Service; she excavated in Crete, Euboea, Thessaly, and the Argolid, and worked as Curator of ceramic collections at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens for over thirty years. She experienced political persecution under the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. She has been described by the archaeologists Marianna Nikolaidou and Dimitra Kokkinidou as "perhaps the most important woman in Greek archaeology", and by the newspaper To Vima as "the last representative of the generation of great archaeologists".^[1]