Agnes Newhall Stillwell

Agnes Newhall Stillwell
A smiling young white woman with dark hair, wearing a fur coat and standing outdoors
Agnes Newhall Stillwell, from the 1927 yearbook of Bryn Mawr College
Born
Agnes Ellen Milan

March 4, 1906
Southwest Harbor, Maine, U.S.
DiedApril 8, 1957 (1957-04-09) (aged 51)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationArchaeologist
SpouseRichard Stillwell

Agnes Ellen Newhall Stillwell (March 4, 1906 – April 8, 1957) was an American archaeologist, focused on Corinth.

Early life and education

Newhall was born Agnes Ellen Milan in Southwest Harbor, Maine.[1] Agnes was partly raised by an aunt, educator Laura L. Newhall, in Boston.[2] Agnes was described as a niece of Millie Milan and her older sister Hattie Hamblen, when both women died on the same day, in Maine in 1932.[3]

Newhall graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1927, and pursued graduate studies on a fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,[4] where she was based until 1935.[5]

Career

Stillwell moved to Princeton, New Jersey, because her husband was a professor there.[6] She continued working alongside her husband in Greece,[7] and writing scholarly articles.[8] Her inventories from excavating at Corinth continued to inform other scholars' work.[9][10]

Publications

  • "Eighth Century B.C. Inscriptions from Corinth" (1933)[11]
  • The Potter’s Quarter (1948, with Jack Leonard Benson)[12]
  • The Potter’s Quarter: The Terracottas (1952)[13]

Personal life and legacy

Agnes Newhall married Richard Stillwell, head of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, in London in 1932.[5] They had two children, Richard and Theodora. Richard became a chemist, and Theodora followed her parents in doing archaeological work at Corinth.[7][14] Agnes Newhall Stillwell died in 1957, at the age of 51, in Princeton.[15] Her granddaughter Camilla MacKay is also an archaeologist by training.[8][16]

References

  1. ^ "Miss Agnes E. Newhall Former Southwest Harbor Girl Engaged to Marry". The Bangor Daily News. May 26, 1932. p. 10. Retrieved May 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Winner of $2000 Scholarship Niece of South Boston Woman". The Boston Globe. p. 11. Retrieved May 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Two Sisters on Same Day". The Bangor Daily News. April 21, 1932. p. 4. Retrieved May 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "South Boston Girl Wins Athens Fellowship". The Boston Globe. May 1, 1928. p. 23. Retrieved May 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b "Agnes Newhall Engaged to Marry; Niece of Miss L. F. Newhall of Boston to Wed Professor Richard Stillwell; Both are Now in Greece; Bridegroom-to-Be, Princeton Graduate, Recently Named Head of American School at Athens". The New York Times. 1932-05-14. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  6. ^ "Richard Stillwell Dies; Princeton Archeologist". The New York Times. 1982-08-03. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  7. ^ a b "Theodora Stillwell MacKay, 1938–1998" (PDF). American School of Classical Studies at Athens Newsletter (41): 18. Summer 1998.
  8. ^ a b "Touring Antiquity: The Richard Stillwell Collection". Visual Resources Collection, Princeton University. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  9. ^ Weinberg, Saul S. (1949). "Investigations at Corinth, 1947–1948". Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 18 (1): 148–157. doi:10.2307/147002. ISSN 0018-098X. JSTOR 147002.
  10. ^ Brownlee, Ann Blair (2003). "Workshops in the Potters' Quarter". Corinth. 20: 181–194. doi:10.2307/4390723. ISSN 1558-7185. JSTOR 4390723.
  11. ^ Stillwell, Agnes Newhall (1933-10-01). "Eighth Century B. C. Inscriptions from Corinth". American Journal of Archaeology. 37 (4): 605–610. doi:10.2307/498126. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 498126. S2CID 193019509.
  12. ^ Stillwell, Agnes Newhall; Benson, Jack Leonard (1948). The Potters' Quarter: The Pottery. ASCSA. ISBN 978-0-87661-153-1.
  13. ^ Stillwell, Agnes Newhall (1952). "The Potters' Quarter: The Terracottas". Corinth. 15 (2): iii–300. doi:10.2307/4390693. ISSN 1558-7185. JSTOR 4390693.
  14. ^ Mackay, Theodora Stillwell (1975). "Three Poets Observe Picus". The American Journal of Philology. 96 (3): 272–275. doi:10.2307/293840. ISSN 0002-9475. JSTOR 293840.
  15. ^ "Deaths in Jersey". Courier News. April 9, 1957. p. 26. Retrieved May 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Camilla MacKay". Bryn Mawr College. Retrieved 2023-05-16.