# Cyrus H. Gordon · Person

> Semitist; read Eteocretan and Linear A as Northwest Semitic. In Eteocretan and Eteocypriot.

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# Cyrus H. Gordon

Semitist; read Eteocretan and Linear A as Northwest Semitic **1908–2001.**

[Eteocretan and Eteocypriot](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot)[1 event][2 sources]

Cyrus H. Gordon is american Semitist and Ugaritic scholar who argued from 1962 that the Eteocretan inscriptions, like Linear A, record a Northwest Semitic language, and who translated the Greek of the Amathus bilingual. (1908–2001), and appears in the record of Eteocretan and Eteocypriot as semitist; read Eteocretan and Linear A as Northwest Semitic.

One event on the site involves Gordon: Cyrus Gordon reads Eteocretan as Northwest Semitic (1962).

One question rest in part on what Gordon did or said, among them “What language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?”, which stands open: 5 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

**Eteocretan and Eteocypriot**

1 event

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot)

[What language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8QBDF18/what-language-do-the-eteocretan-inscriptions-of-praisos-and)Open: 5 answers, none ahead

## What Cyrus H. Gordon did 1

1962[Cyrus Gordon reads Eteocretan as Northwest Semitic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/events/EVT0DEDX4SRQEWX/cyrus-gordon-reads-eteocretan-as-northwest-semitic)

## Sources 2

[Evidence for the Minoan Language](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CQHJZ9W0AHG/evidence-for-the-minoan-language)

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[Eteocretan](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDR0QTWSHZ/eteocretan)

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1908-06-29

Died

2001-03-30

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Semitic reading of Eteocretan, Semitic reading of Linear A

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American Semitist and Ugaritic scholar who argued from 1962 that the Eteocretan inscriptions, like Linear A, record a Northwest Semitic language, and who translated the Greek of the Amathus bilingual.

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