Enigmatic writing in the Egyptian New Kingdom I : Revealing, transforming, and display in Egyptian hieroglyphs

This is the first synthesis on Egyptian enigmatic writing (also referred to as “cryptography”) in the New Kingdom (c.1550–1070 BCE). Enigmatic writing is an extended practice of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, set against immediate decoding and towards revealing additional levels of meaning. This first volume consists of studies by the main specialists in the field. The second volume is a lexicon of all attested enigmatic signs and values. Preface Contents Introduction • Andréas Stauder Ancient Egyptian Cryptography: Graphic Hermeneutics • John Coleman Darnell The Enigmatic Frieze of Ramesses II at Luxor Temple • David Klotz In Tombs, Temples and on Scribal Palettes: Contexts and Functions of Private Cryptography during the Mid-Late Eighteenth Dynasty • Andrés Diego Espinel A Brief Excursus on the Mechanisms of Cryptographic Sign Substitution • Joshua Aaron Roberson The ‘Jackal Hymn of the West’ in the Book of the Night • Joshua Aaron Roberson Semiotic Aspects of Alienated and Cryptographic Encodings in the Netherworld Books of the New Kingdom • Daniel A. Werning The Visual Otherness of the Enigmatic Text in Some Netherworld Books of the New Kingdom • Andréas Stauder