Cyrus H. Gordon
On the Cover: Superimposed upon Gordon's transcription of a Ugaritic text, an ivory plaque (H = 24 cm) from Ras Shamra portrays a goddess nursing two children. From Syria 31 (1954): pl. 8.
A Scholar for All Seasons. Philadelphia born in 1908, Cyrus H. Gordon has been a prolific and pioneering contributor to the study of the world of the Near East and eastern Mediterranean since he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1930. Mentored by some of the discipline's great luminaries (James Montgomery, Max Margolis, and W. F. Albright), Gordon has joined their constellation. His uniquely broad command of ancient studies has issued forth in hundreds of publications, dozens of Ph.D. graduates, and an abidingly fecund legacy of ideas.
Cyrus H. Gordon poses in 1983.