Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Epigrapher · Expedition member

Frank Cross

Frank Moore Cross

fl. 1971–1989

Near Eastern epigrapher, Harvard University, active 1971–1989. Worked with Lawrence E. Stager.

Life and work

  1. 1972
    Dated to about 300 BC a four-line painted ostracon in Greek letters, found in a mud brick of the industrial terrace at Idalion; read as a mixture of Greek and Phoenician naming four city gates ('the gate of Tamassos', 'the gate of the Ark of the Armies', and others).

    IdalionKarageorghis 1973

  2. 1974
    Contributed Part 8, 'Inscriptions from Idalion in Greek, Cypriot Syllabic and Phoenician Scripts', to the first preliminary report of the American Expedition to Idalion (seasons of 1971 and 1972); first item is the Greek ostracon T. 54/308 listing the gates of Idalion, including the Tamassian gate.

    IdalionStager et al. 1974, p. 77

  3. 1989
    Listed as staff epigraphist of the 1973-1980 seasons; his preliminary palaeographic study dated the Phoenician ink ostraca found in West Terrace debris to the fourth century BC.

    IdalionStager & Walker 1989

Connections

3 people
Vassos KarageorghisGeorge Ernest WrightLawrence E. StagerFrank Cross
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Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Frank Moore Cross (1974). “Inscriptions from Idalion in Greek, Cypriot Syllabic and Phoenician Scripts (Part 8)”. American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus: First Preliminary Report, Seasons of 1971 and 1972, 77-.
  2. 2.L. E. Stager (ed.), A. Walker (ed.), G. E. Wright (ed.) (1974). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus: First Preliminary Report, Seasons of 1971 and 1972. American Schools of Oriental Research.
  3. 3.Lawrence E. Stager (ed.), Anne M. Walker (ed.) (1989). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus, 1973-1980. Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
  4. 4.V. Karageorghis (1973). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1972”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 97.
  5. 5.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.