Pelicans ISBN 0 14 02.1328 7 - Forgotten Scripts The Story of Their Decipherment

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published in Great Britain bu Thames & Hudson 1968 This revised edition published in Pelican Books 1971 Copyright © Cyrus H. Gordon, 1971

Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks Set in Linotype Ehrhardt

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