·PARA ≥PAR@ ` ·TEXT ` ∞Mitchell, Lucy Myers Wright1845╨1888archaeologistBorn on March 20, 1845, in Urmia, Persia (now Rezï╒òyeh, Iran), Lucy Wright was the daughter of a missionary to the Nestorian Christians. In 1860 she was brought to America, and a short time later she entered Mount Holyoke Seminary, but she left in 1864 to rejoin her father in Persia. On his death the next year she came back to the United States. She married Samuel S. Mitchell of Morristown, New Jersey, in 1867, and they traveled together to Syria as missionaries. Her husband╒s health failed soon afterward, however, and they left Syria; the rest of her life was spent mainly in Europe. By that time she had acquired a vernacular knowledge of Syriac and Arabic, as well as French, German, and Italian, and for a time she devoted herself to philological studies. Her dictionary of modern Syriac was never published, and the manuscript was ultimately obtained by Cambridge University. In 1873 Mitchell turned her attention to ancient art. While living in Rome in 1876╨1878 she gave parlor lectures on Greek and Roman sculpture. A number of museums and libraries granted her scholar╒s privileges, and many leading archaeologists of Europe assisted her in her studies. In 1883 she published A History of Ancient Sculpture, and a companion volume of plates, Selections from Ancient Sculpture. These works were well received by critics and fellow scholars, and in 1884 she became only the second woman to be elected to the Imperial German Archaeological Institute. During 1884╨1886 she began studying in Berlin for a major work on Greek pottery and vase-painting. Her studies included ancient and modern Greek and photography. She fell ill, however, and died in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 10, 1888. ╓styl `
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