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Sterling Dow (19 November

1903, Portland, Maine – 9

January 1995, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

was an American classical archaeologist, epigrapher, and professor of archaeology at Harvard University. After

secondary education at Phillips Exeter Academy,

Dow matriculated in 1921 at Harvard University and graduated there in 1925

with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. As the winner of the Fiske Scholarship, Dow

spent the academic year 1925–1926 studying ancient history at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Returning to Harvard in 1926, he graduated with M.A. in 1928 and Ph.D. in

history in 1936. His doctoral supervisor was the Canadian ancient historian

William Scott Ferguson (1875–1954). Dow married Elizabeth Sanderson Flagg in

1931. Sterling and Elizabeth Dow spent the years from

1931 to 1936 in Athens, Greece and often worked together on making paper

impressions of stone inscriptions unearthed from the Ancient Agora of Athens by

excavations sponsored by the American

School of Classical Studies. During

the early 1930's, he perfected a system of making paper impressions of ancient

Greek inscriptions. The method allowed scholars to read inscriptions more

completely and clearly than had previously been possible. At the same time, he

discovered a kleroterion, a mechanical device that the

Athenians had used to allot offices by random choice rather than through

election. A

Guggenheim Fellowship for the academic year 1934–1935 and various Harvard awards supported Dow in

Athens. He benefitted from working with the epigrapher Johannes Kirchner

(1859–1940). During his career Dow was awarded two more Guggenheim

Fellowships (in 1959 and 1966). Dow's

colleagues in Athens included Bert Hodge Hill, Homer Thompson, William Bell Dinsmoor, Virginia Grace, and Lucy Shoe. At

Harvard, Dow was an instructor from 1936 to 1941, an associate professor from

1941 to 1948, Professor of History and Greek from 1946 to 1948, and the John E.

Hudson Professor of Archaeology from 1949 to 1970, when he retired as professor

emeritus. During WW II, he was an academic leave of absence and served as

a member of the Office of Strategic

Services in Washington, DC, and in Egypt. During the academic year 1966–1967 he was on

sabbatical in Athens as the Annual Professor at the American School of

Classical Studies. From 1970 to 1977 he was a professor of Greek civilization

and history at Boston College. For the academic year 1977–1978 he was a

professor of classics at Vassar College. As

a scholar Dow was known primarily for his contributions to Greek epigraphy and

history, but his range was remarkable. He wrote five books and more than 150

articles and reviews. Many of his studies illuminated the political and social

institutions of Athens and the men who were involved in them, but he also wrote

important papers on the historical setting of the Homeric poems, on religious

calendars, and on early writing and literacy. He gained international

recognition for his deduction, on historical grounds, that the famous Linear B

tablets of the second millenium B.C. were inscribed with an early form of

Greek, a deduction confirmed when the tablets were finally deciphered in 1953. Dow

was given three honorary degrees. He was a founder of Archaeology magazine and the American Research Center

in Egypt. From 1946 to 1948 he was the president of the American Institute of

Archaeology. In 1984 Duke University Press published a festschrift in honor of his 80th birthday. Ohio State

University's Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies administers The

Sterling and Elizabeth Dow Fellowship in Greek epigraphy and history. 

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