Émilia Masson (née Émilia Jovanovic-Slavinski; May 24 1940 - August 7 2017) was a linguist and epigrapher whose areas of research included the undeciphered Cypro-Minoan writing system from ancient Cyprus, and the ancient Anatolian language Hittite.

She studied in Yugoslavia and in France, and her doctoral dissertation Recherches sur les plus anciens emprunts sémitiques en grec (Research on the most ancient Semitic loanwords in Greek) was published in Paris in 1967.

[1][2] From 1969, she began working on the Cypro-Minoan texts, publishing monographs on the Cypro-Minoan inscribed clay balls from Enkomi and Hala Sultan Tekke in 1971 and on the Cypro-Minoan inscriptions found in Ugarit (Syria) in 1974, and frequently collaborating with the Cypriot archaeologist Vassos Karageorghis and with her husband Olivier Masson (1922-1997), who was also a linguist and epigrapher specialising in the study of Cyprus, to publish inscriptions discovered during excavations.

[1][3][4] She also published on the Hittite language, and from the 1980s she began to focus particularly on Anatolian studies and on Bronze Age religious practices, publishing books on religious sites in the Hittite city of Yazılıkaya in Turkey and on the Bronze Age rock-carvings of the Vallée des merveilles in the French Alps.

[1][5][6] After Masson's death on August 7 2017 in Paris, her archives, along with her husband's, were donated by their daughter Diane to the Centre d'Études Chypriotes (Centre for Cypriot Studies); they are now divided between the University of Paris Nanterre, the Fédération Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, and the Louvre Museum's Department of Eastern Antiquities.