Alison Frantz

Mary Alison Frantz (September 27, 1903 – February 1, 1995) was an American archaeological photographer and a Byzantine scholar. She is best known for her work as the official photographer of the excavations of the Agora of Athens, and for her photographs of ancient Greek sculpture, including the Parthenon frieze and works from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.

Alison Frantz
At the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1947
Born	Mary Alison Frantz (1903-09-27)September 27, 1903 Duluth, Minnesota
Died	February 1, 1995(1995-02-01) (aged 91) Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Known for	Photography of archaeological sites and artefacts, particularly in the Athenian Agora
Academic background
Education	Smith College Columbia University
Doctoral advisor	Charles Rufus Morey
Academic work
Institutions	Princeton University American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Espionage activity
Allegiance	United States
Agency	Office of Strategic Services
Service years	1942–1945

Frantz was born in Minnesota. Following her father's early death, she lived briefly in Scotland, where she first took an interest in photography. She first visited Greece in 1925, shortly after graduating in classics from Smith College, and held a fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) in 1929–1930. She carried out her doctoral research under Charles Rufus Morey, receiving her PhD from Columbia University in 1937.

Frantz began working at the ASCSA's Agora excavations in January 1934. From 1935, she took on an increasing share of the excavation's photography, and was made its official photographer in 1939. She also took the first photographs of the Linear B tablets from the Mycenaean site of Pylos, images used for the first transcription of the tablets and consequently for the decipherment of Linear B. As part of her work in the Agora excavations, she excavated and restored the Church of the Holy Apostles, the site's last surviving Byzantine structure.

During the Second World War, Frantz joined the Office of Strategic Services. She worked as an assistant to Carl Blegen, another archaeologist turned agent, and gathered intelligence on European exiles in the United States. She served on an Allied commission to observe the Greek elections of 1946, worked for the US Information Service, and was subsequently the cultural attaché of the US embassy in Athens. In this capacity, she established the Fulbright Program in Greece.

Frantz left the Agora excavations in 1964. Her later work largely consisted of collaborations with archaeologists such as Gisela Richter, Martin Robertson and Bernard Ashmole. In 1967, she excavated a Roman tomb on Sikinos, overturning its traditional identification as a temple. Her publications included some of the earliest archaeological research into Ottoman Greece, as well as photography of archaic kore sculptures, Byzantine architecture and artefacts from the Aegean Bronze Age. She was considered among the foremost photographers of ancient Greek antiquities, and her work has been cited as a major influence on the scholarship and popular reception of classical Greece.

Early life and education

 

Athens, with the Acropolis in the background, photographed in 1922, three years before Frantz's first visit to the city

Mary Alison Frantz^[1] was born on 27 September 1903 in Duluth, Minnesota, the youngest of five children.^[2] Her father, a newspaper publisher, died of pneumonia soon afterwards;^[4] her Scottish mother, Mary Kate Frantz, moved the family to Edinburgh.^[5] Frantz received her first camera there, as a gift from her brother.^[3] She later described the experience, at the age of five, of watching her brother develop photographs in a darkroom as an early catalyst of her interest in the subject.^[6] After two years, the family returned to the United States. Her mother settled the family in Princeton: Frantz later credited this decision to the proximity of Princeton University, though she said that this was intended "for [her] brothers, of course".^[3]

Frantz graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics from Smith College, a women's liberal arts college in Massachusetts, in 1924.^[7] Among her teachers at Smith was the art historian Clarence Kennedy, whose use of photography to record ancient and renaissance sculpture, aiming to minimise personal style in favour of documentary accuracy, influenced Frantz's later work.^[8] She subsequently spent the 1924–1925 academic year as a fellow of the American Academy in Rome.^[3] During this time, she made her first visit to Greece,^[9] on a short trip organized by the Academy's director, Gorham P. Stevens, and his Greek wife, Annette Notaras. Frantz did not enjoy the visit, which lasted just over a month between April and May 1925; she wrote her mother that "Rome [was] far superior to Athens, except for the Acropolis".^[10]

Between 1927 and 1929, Frantz worked at Princeton University for the historian Charles Rufus Morey, researching for his Index of Christian Art.^[11] She returned briefly to Greece in the fall of 1927, visiting Priscilla Capps at her home in Athens. Capps was a fellow Smith College graduate and the daughter of Edward Capps, the chair of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA).^[12] She and Frantz travelled to Meteora in northern Greece, which Frantz described in a letter as "the most amazing place [she had] ever seen".^[10] Frantz carried out her doctoral studies into Byzantine art with Morey,^[13] a prolific supervisor of Byzantine scholars and conduit for the movement of junior scholars between Princeton and the ASCSA. As Princeton did not accept women as students, Frantz's PhD was awarded, in 1937, by Columbia University.^[14] She sarcastically referred to the Byzantine period, then out of scholarly fashion, as "the grubby period".^[6]

In 1929, Frantz was appointed as one of the first fellows of the ASCSA.^[15] She spent the 1929–1930 academic year working as a librarian at the ASCSA,^[10] during which she took her first photographs of ancient Greek monuments.^[16] She lived in a room, secured for her by Priscilla Capps, at Miramare Palace hotel in Old Phaleron.^[10] She visited Thessaloniki in 1930, where she was given a tour of the Basilica of Saint Dimitrios, a Byzantine church dating to the seventh century CE, by Aristotelis Zachos, the architect who had restored the basilica after its destruction by fire in 1917.^[17]

Early career

 

Remains of the Southwest Fountain House in the Agora, discovered in 1934 – the year Frantz joined the excavations^[18]

Frantz started her career in the Athenian Agora excavations, conducted by the ASCSA, in January 1934.^[19] She initially assisted Lucy Talcott, the excavation's recording secretary, in the Record Department.^[20] For much of her work in the Agora excavations, Frantz was an unpaid volunteer.^[21] During the 1930s, she worked largely on Byzantine painting, and made a study of the frescoes of several churches – demolished shortly afterwards – which was illustrated by the artist and draughtsman Piet de Jong.^[22] In 1935, she and Talcott visited the house of the Greek avant-garde artist Photis Kontoglou, where Frantz and Kontoglou discussed the techniques of fresco-painting.^[23]

The official photographer of the Agora Excavation was Herman Wagner, a member of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens. He was also employed in other excavation roles; from 1935, Frantz was increasingly made responsible for the photographic documentation of the project. She was given the title of official photographer when Wagner stepped down in 1939.^[24][a] Just before the Second World War, Frantz photographed in two days more than six hundred tablets inscribed in Linear B from the Mycenaean site of Pylos, brought to Athens by their excavator, Carl Blegen, for safekeeping in the Bank of Greece.^[26] A set of prints of the photographs were delivered in 1940 to the University of Cincinnati, where Blegen worked, and were used by Emmett L. Bennett to make the first transcription and edition of the tablets, which he published in 1951.^[27] Frantz's obituarist James R. McCredie credited her photographs with enabling the decipherment of Linear B by Michael Ventris in 1952.^[26]

Second World War and aftermath

 

Edward Capps, chair of the ASCSA's managing committee and Frantz's colleague in the American School Committee for Aid to Greece, photographed in 1920

Following the Italian invasion of Greece in October 1940, archaeological work in the country was suspended.^[28] Several archaeologists of the ASCSA, led by Rodney Young and Benjamin Meritt, founded the American School Committee for Aid to Greece, which purchased ambulances to send to Greek forces. Frantz joined the committee alongside T. Leslie Shear, who had worked with her on the Agora excavations, Talcott, Edward Capps, George Elderkin, Hetty Goldman and Oscar Broneer. The committee organized a benefit concert to raise funds; Frantz and Talcott also collaborated on a book of photographs, This Is Greece. The royalties for the work, published in 1941, were used for the committee's work.^[29] By the end of January 1942, the committee had distributed $24,500 (equivalent to $438,804 in 2022) for aid to Greece.^[30]

Frantz moved to Washington, D.C., where she became a fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks research institute.^[28] In the summer of 1941, she and Young received a grant of $1,000 (equivalent to $19,896 in 2022) to compile an index of the first ten volumes of Hesperia, the school's academic journal. Young left the project and joined the Office of Strategic Services, the intelligence agency of the United States, later that year. Frantz finished creating a set of alphabetic index cards, covering almost the whole English part of the index, before herself joining the OSS in the summer of 1942.^[31]

Frantz and Young were among several archaeologists, including the Americans Blegen, Meritt, and Shear and the British Alan Wace, to serve in Allied intelligence services in Greece.^[32] She was recommended to the OSS by Meritt, then head of the Greek section of the organization's Foreign Nationalities Branch (FNB), for whom she had worked part-time as an indexer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.^[33] At the OSS, she initially worked in the Research and Analysis (R&A) branch, before moving later in 1942 to work as an assistant and political analyst for Blegen,^[34] who succeeded Meritt in September of that year.^[35] The FNB was primarily tasked with interviewing people resident in the United States from European and Mediterranean ethic groups, and would interview and record their views on the politics and situation of their native countries. Frantz's official title was Junior Social Science Analyst; her work primarily focused on interviewing political exiles from German-occupied Europe.^[1] She and Blegen were based in Washington, D.C., and she remained with Blegen as he moved to lead the FNB's Miscellaneous Languages section.^[36] Late in 1942, Blegen was appointed as head of the FNB's Chancery; Frantz once again moved with him, and was promoted to senior political analyst.^[37] In 1944, James Murphy, the head of the OSS's X-2 Counter Espionage Branch, unsuccessfully attempted to recruit Franz for counterintelligence work.^[38]

Post-war government service

After the end of the war, the ACSCA was used as a conduit for US policy in Greece, particularly for the implementation of the Marshall Plan of economic aid.^[39] In 1946, alongside Blegen, Frantz was appointed to the Allied Mission for Observing the Greek Elections (AMFOGE), an organization of observers and statisticians sent by Britain, France and the United States to ensure the fairness of that year's elections, held on 31 March, to the Hellenic Parliament.^[40] Frantz arrived in Athens on January 8, where she and Blegen, based at the latter's home at 9 Ploutarchou Street, created a training course in Greek history, politics and culture for the other American members of the AMFOGE. The two delivered the course in Naples in the following February, during which time they were trained in first aid, map-reading and physical conditioning, as well as in how to drive and repair a Jeep.^[41]

Frantz returned to the Agora excavations when they resumed in the spring of 1946.^[42] She briefly worked, in the same year, for the US Information Service, the public affairs agency for the United States abroad.^[43] Between 1946 and 1949, she served as cultural attaché of the US embassy in Athens, following Blegen in the role.^[45] In this capacity, she established the Fulbright Program in Greece, which sent ten scholars and eight senior research fellows to the ASCSA in 1949,^[46] and played an important role in restoring the Athens Symphony Orchestra.^[47] Throughout the 1950s, she delivered lectures in Byzantine Greece – at the time, an area rarely taught at US universities or in the ASCSA's courses – for visiting students and scholars.^[48]

Later career

 

The Byzantine Church of the Holy Apostles in the Athenian Agora, restored by Frantz and John Travlos in 1954–1957

Between 1954 and 1957,^[49] Frantz and the archaeologist John Travlos supervised the restoration of the Church of the Holy Apostles, constructed around 1100 and the only surviving Byzantine building in the Agora.^[50] This included the complete excavation of the building by Frantz, as well as the removal of a nineteenth-century narthex.^[51] Around 1958, she and the art historian Rhys Carpenter climbed Mount Pentelicus, guided by Homer Thompson, the director of the Agora excavations, to photograph an unfinished marble colossal statue near the summit.^[52] In 1963–1964, she excavated the ruins of the sixteenth-century Church of St. Dionysios the Areopagite, on the northern slope of the Areopagus.^[53]

Frantz remained the official photographer of the Agora excavations until 1964.^[9] She left the project to return to live in Princeton, and focused her work on collaborating on books with other archaeologists. This included travelling to Olympia with the British archaeologist Bernard Ashmole and the Greek archaeologist Nicholas Yalouris, where she photographed the sculptures of the Temple of Zeus.^[54] Frantz considered her work on this expedition to be the best of her career.^[55]

In 1966, Frantz visited the Greek island of Sikinos for two days, during which she correctly questioned the identification of what was then known as the island's Temple of Apollo Pythius. She secured permission from the Greek Archaeological Service to excavate the structure: she, Travlos and Thompson, returned in the last week of May 1967 to do so. Their work revealed that the so-called temple was in fact a monumental Roman tomb, dating from the second to third centuries CE.^[56] An exhibition of Frantz's photography was held at Smith College in October–November 1967.^[57] The latter exhibition focused on her images of Minoan and Mycenaean artefacts from Crete: her work in this field included images of the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus.^[58]

The archaeological historian Kostis Kourelis has suggested that Frantz, after her return to the United States, tried to establish herself as a fine-art photographer rather than as producing archaeological documentation: he notes that her last excavation photographs were taken in 1968.^[59] In 1975, she collaborated with the British classicist Martin Robertson on his monograph about the Parthenon frieze.^[60] Smith College hosted a further exhibition of her work in 1984, which included photographs of her cats alongside more conventional archaeological material.^[61] Frantz suffered a stroke in 1994, which affected her speech and movement.^[62] On January 27, 1995, she was struck by a truck near her home in Princeton; she died on February 1 at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.^[9]

Assessment and legacy

 

Part of the northern section of the Parthenon frieze. Frantz photographed most of the surviving sculptures from the frieze for Martin Robertson's 1975 monograph on it.^[60]

An obituary in The New York Times described Frantz as "one of the foremost archaeological photographers of Greek sites and antiquities".^[9] The quality of her photography of the Pylos Linear B tablets was praised by researchers including Ventris, John Chadwick and Sterling Dow, for whom the photographs were the only means of studying the tablets during the Second World War, as the originals were held in secure storage in Athens.^[63] In 2005, the archaeologist John K. Papadopoulos listed her among the foremost photographers of ancient Greek monuments.^[64] John Camp, who directed the Agora excavations, was quoted shortly before Frantz's death as saying "when one thinks of the great photos of the past fifty years, the name of a single individual comes to mind – Alison Franz".^[62] Frantz frequently contributed photographs to the publications of Gisela Richter, an art historian whose works, in the words of Elizabeth Bartman, "defined the study of Greek art for Anglophone readers during much of the twentieth century".^[65]

Frantz worked on Late Antiquity at a time when the field suffered from general scholarly neglect: her biographers Amy Papalexandrou and Marie Mauzy have credited her with contributing to the reassessment of the period from one of "degeneracy" to a respectable field of research.^[16] Kourelis writes that she "single-handedly created a field of Byzantine studies" for her work on the Agora.^[66] In their history of women in the Agora excavations, Susan I. Rotroff and Robert D. Lamberton described Frantz as being ahead of her time in her advocacy of a diachronic approach to the project, as opposed to the singular focus on the classical period then dominant in Greek archaeology.^[6] Her 1942 article on Ottoman pottery in the Agora excavations was one of the first to focus on that period in Greek archaeology, and was the first to exclusively handle Ottoman material; it remained one of few to do so until the 1970s.^[67] The archaeologist Joanita Vroom has listed Frantz, alongside her ASCSA colleague Frederick Waagé, as one of "the first pioneers" of Ottoman archaeology in Greece.^[68]

Frantz was one of relatively few women working professionally in either photography or archaeology during her lifetime.^[16] She is most famous for her photographs of the Parthenon frieze and of the sculptures of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.^[69] The archive of Frantz's photographs and negatives is divided between the American School of Classical Studies^[70] and at Princeton University.^[71] In accordance with Frantz's instructions, the ASCSA received the works that she considered useful to classical archaeologists and art historians, while Princeton's Firestone Library received her personal photographs.^[72] Most of these were hitherto unpublished; writing in The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Patricia H. Marks called the Frantz archive "an archaeologist's dream".^[73]

In 1967, Smith College awarded Frantz a medal for the most outstanding graduate of its humanities programme. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1973.^[47] The ASCSA awards a scholarship in Frantz's honor, available to students working on post-classical Greece.^[74] In 2023, the Frantz Room in Loring Hall, the ASCSA's hostel for visiting students, was named after her.^[75]

Selected publications

As sole author

• Frantz, Alison (1934). "Byzantine Illuminated Ornament: A Study in Chronology". The Art Bulletin. 16 (1): 42–101. doi:10.2307/3045526. JSTOR 3045526.
• — (1935). "Late Byzantine Paintings in the Agora". Hesperia. 4 (3): 442–469. JSTOR 146461.
• — (1938). "Middle Byzantine Pottery in Athens". Hesperia. 7 (3): 429–467. JSTOR 146581.
• — (1940). "Digenis Akritas: A Byzantine Epic and Its Illustrators". Byzantion. 15: 87–91. JSTOR 44168518.
• — (1941). "Akritas and the Dragons". Hesperia. 10 (1): 9–13. JSTOR 146599.
• — (1941). "St. Spyridon: The Earlier Frescoes" (PDF). Hesperia. 10 (1): 193–198. JSTOR 146560. Retrieved February 3, 2024 – via American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
• — (1942). "Turkish Pottery from the Agora" (PDF). Hesperia. 11 (1): 1–28. JSTOR 146529. Retrieved February 3, 2024 – via American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
• — (1944). "Charles H. Morgan, II: The Byzantine Pottery (Corinth, Vol. XI), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1942. Pp. xv + 373; Figs. 226, Pls. LIII and Frontispiece. $15.00". The Art Bulletin. 26 (1): 58–60. doi:10.1080/00043079.1944.11409386.
• — (1950). "Truth Before Beauty: Or, The Incompleat Photographer". Archaeology. 3 (4): 202–214. JSTOR 41662414.
• — (1952). "A Province of the Empire: Byzantine Churches in Greece". Archaeology. 5 (4): 236–243. JSTOR 41663089.
• — (1954). "The Church of the Holy Apostles at Athens". Byzantion. 24 (2): 513–520. JSTOR 44161028.
• — (1961). The Middle Ages in the Athenian Agora (PDF). Excavations of the Athenian Agora: Picture Books. Vol. 7. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. ISBN 9780876616079. Retrieved January 20, 2024.
• — (1965). "From Paganism to Christianity in the Temples of Athens". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 19 (4): 185, 187–205. doi:10.2307/1291230. JSTOR 1291230 – via Internet Archive.
• — (1967). A Land Called Crete: Photographs of Minoan and Mycenaean Sites by Alison Frantz. Northampton: Smith College Museum of Art. OCLC 1947239.
• — (1971). The Church of the Holy Apostles (PDF). The Athenian Agora. Vol. 20. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Retrieved January 20, 2024.
• — (1975). "Pagan Philosophers in Christian Athens". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 119 (1): 29–38. JSTOR 986648.
• — (1979). "Did Julian the Apostate Rebuild the Parthenon?". American Journal of Archaeology. 83 (4): 395–401. doi:10.2307/504138. JSTOR 504138.
• — (1982). "The Date of the Phaidros Bema in the Theater of Dionysos". Studies in Athenian Architecture, Sculpture and Topography Presented to Homer A. Thompson. Hesperia Supplements. Vol. 20. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. pp. 34–39, 194–195. doi:10.2307/1353943. JSTOR 1353943. OCLC 8050699.
• — (1983). "Multum in Parvo: The Aegean Island of Sikinos". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 127 (2): 71–83. JSTOR 986190.
• — (1988). Late Antiquity A.D. 267–700 (PDF). The Athenian Agora. Vol. 24. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Retrieved January 20, 2024.^[b]

As co-author

• Frantz, Alison; Thompson, Homer A.; Travlos, John (1969). "The 'Temple of Apollo Pythios' on Sikinos". American Journal of Archaeology. 73 (4): 397–422. doi:10.2307/503997. JSTOR 503997. S2CID 192962368.
• Talcott, Lucy; Frantz, Alison (1941). This Is Greece. New York: Hastings House. OL 50557265M.
• Travlos, John; Frantz, Alison (1965). "The Church of St. Dionysios the Areopagite and the Palace of the Archbishop of Athens in the 16th Century" (PDF). Hesperia. 34 (3): 157–202. JSTOR 147210. Retrieved February 3, 2024 – via American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

As photographer

• Alsop, Joseph (1970). From the Silent Earth: A Report on the Greek Bronze Age. London: Penguin. ISBN 0140211667.
• Ashmole, Bernard; Yalouris, Nicholas (1967). Olympia: The Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus. London: Phaidon. OCLC 11444853.
• Lamberton, Robert D.; Rotroff, Susan I. (1985). Birds of the Athenian Agora (PDF). Excavations of the Athenian Agora: Picture Books. Vol. 22. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. ISBN 0876616279.
• Richter, Gisela M. (1961). The Archaic Gravestones of Attica. London: Phaidon. OCLC 503994781.
• Richter, Gisela M. (1968). Korai: Archaic Greek Maidens. London: Phaidon. OCLC 473818998.
• Robertson, Martin (1975). The Parthenon Frieze. London: Phaidon. ISBN 0714816590.
• Thompson, Dorothy Burr (1959). Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora (PDF). Excavations of the Athenian Agora: Picture Books. Vol. 3. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
• Thompson, Homer A. (1959). The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (PDF). Excavations of the Athenian Agora: Picture Books. Vol. 2. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Footnotes

Explanatory notes

1. Homer A. Thompson, director of the Agora excavations, stated in a 1994 interview that Wagner had been prohibited from returning to Greece after the Second World War, as his behaviour during the German occupation "was not to the liking of the Greeks".^[25]
2. Also includes contributions by John Travlos and Homer A. Thompson.

References

1. Lalaki 2013, p. 184.
2. McCredie 2000, pp. 214–215; Szegedy-Maszak 1995, p. 62.
3. Szegedy-Maszak 1995, p. 62.
4. McCredie 2000, p. 213. McCredie states that he died when Frantz was three years old; Szegedy-Maszak's profile of Frantz states that she was one.^[3]
5. Szegedy-Maszak 1995, p. 62. For the name of Frantz's mother, see Vogeikoff-Brogan 2019.
6. Rotroff & Lamberton 2005, p. 51.
7. McCredie 2000, p. 214.
8. Papalexandrou & Mauzy 2003, p. 132.
9. Elliott 1995, p. 26.
10. Vogeikoff-Brogan 2019.
11. McCredie 2000, p. 214; Szegedy-Maszak 1995, p. 62.
12. Vogeikoff-Brogan 2019. For Edward Capps, see Vogeikoff-Brogan & Davis 2015, p. 5.
13. McCredie 2000, p. 214; Kourelis 2007, p. 427.
14. Papalexandrou & Mauzy 2003, p. 130; Kourelis 2007, p. 427.
15. Szegedy-Maszak 1995, p. 62; Papalexandrou & Mauzy 2003, p. 130.
16. Papalexandrou & Mauzy 2003, p. 130.
17. Kourelis 2007, p. 410.
18. Thompson 1953, p. 35.
19. The Smith Alumnae Quarterly, February 1934, p. 330.
20. Rotroff & Lamberton 2005, p. 51. For Talcott, see Sparkes 2004, p. 1.
21. Meritt 1984, p. 192.
22. Kourelis 2007, p. 422.
23. Kourelis 2007, p. 430.
24. McCredie 2000, p. 214; Rotroff & Lamberton 2005, p. 51.
25. Thompson, Smith & Lyons 1997, p. 33.
26. McCredie 2000, p. 215.
27. Tracy 2018, p. 13.
28. Szegedy-Maszak 1995, p. 64.
29. Allen 2011, p. 33. On This Is Greece, see Roebuck 1941.
30. Meritt 1984, p. 7.
31. Meritt 1943, p. 33; Meritt 1984, p. 247.
32. McCredie 2000, pp. 215–216; Vogeikoff-Brogan 2015, p. 29. For Wace, see Allen 2011, p. 20. For the name of the Foreign Nationalities Branch, see Lalaki 2013, p. 184
33. Lalaki 2013, p. 184; Allen 2011, p. 236 (for Meritt). On the establishment and aims of the FNB, see Szymczak 1999.
34. Allen 2011, p. 237.
35. Allen 2011, p. 236.
36. Allen 2011, pp. 236–237; Lalaki 2013, p. 184.
37. Allen 2011, p. 101.
38. Allen 2011, p. 387.
39. Davis 2013, p. 35.
40. Prévost 2018.
41. Allen 2011, p. 269.
42. Meritt 1984, p. 176, 327.
43. Allen 2011, pp. 276–277.
44. Hatzivassiliou 2014, p. 101.
45. Vogeikoff-Brogan 2013; Davis 2013, p. 35. Hatzivassiliou erroneously states that she assumed the role in 1948.^[44]
46. McCredie 2000, pp. 215–216; Davis 2013, p. 35.
47. McCredie 2000, p. 216.
48. Meritt 1984, pp. 46, 53.
49. Dumont 2020, pp. 89–106.
50. Frantz 1971, p. 1; Mauzy 2006, p. 115. For the date of the church's construction, see Camp 2010, p. 158.
51. Meritt 1984, pp. 187–188.
52. Carpenter 1968, pp. 279–280.
53. Travlos & Frantz 1965; Meritt 1984, p. 181.
54. Szegedy-Maszak 1995, p. 64; Papalexandrou & Mauzy 2003, p. 134.
55. Papalexandrou & Mauzy 2003, p. 143.
56. McCredie 2000, p. 216; Frantz, Thompson & Travlos 1969, pp. 400, 411; Frantz 1983, pp. 72–73.
57. Frantz 1967.
58. Frantz 1967; Nauert 1965, p. 98.
59. Kourelis 2009.
60. Ridgway 1975, p. 277.
61. ASCSA Newsletter, Summer 1984, p. 12; Smith College Museum of Art 1984.
62. Szegedy-Maszak 1995, p. 58.
63. Ventris & Chadwick 1973, p. 14; Dow 1954, pp. 90–91.
64. Papadopoulos 2005, p. 213.
65. Bartman 2022.
66. Kourelis 2007, p. 397.
67. Frantz 1942; Vroom 2007, p. 72; MacKay 2014, p. 273.
68. Vroom 2007, p. 72.
69. Rotroff & Lamberton 2005, p. 52.
70. "Alison Frantz Photographic Collection, 1881–1940".
71. "Alison Frantz Papers". Retrieved October 15, 2013.
72. Papalexandrou & Mauzy 2003, p. 142.
73. Marks 1997, p. 602–603.
74. "Mary Alison Frantz Fellowship in Post-Classical Studies at the Gennadius Library". Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
75. "Alison Frantz Honored in Loring Hall". American School of Classical Studies at Athens. July 23, 2023. Retrieved January 20, 2024.

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