Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. ntroduction 1
5. Ancient Egyptian Cryptography: Graphic Hermeneutics 7
6. The Enigmatic Frieze of Ramesses II at Luxor Temple 49
7. In Tombs, Temples and on Scribal Palettes: Contexts and Functions of Private Cryptography during the Mid-Late Eighteenth Dynasty 101
8. A Brief Excursus on the Mechanisms of Cryptographic Sign Substitution 141
9. The ‘Jackal Hymn of the West’ in the Book of the Night 149
10. Semiotic Aspects of Alienated and Cryptographic Encodings in the Netherworld Books of the New Kingdom 195
11. The Visual Otherness of the Enigmatic Text in Some Netherworld Books of the New Kingdom 249