TY - BOOK AU - Darnell,John Coleman AU - Espinel,Andrés Diego AU - Klotz,David AU - Roberson,Joshua Aaron AU - Stauder,Andréas AU - Werning,Daniel A. TI - Enigmatic Writing in the Egyptian New Kingdom. T2 - Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde – Beihefte , SN - 9783110683547 PY - 2020///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Cryptography KW - Egypt KW - History KW - Egyptian language KW - Writing, Hieroglyphic KW - Enigmatik KW - Hieroglyphen KW - Kryptographie KW - HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt KW - bisacsh KW - Egyptian writing KW - Enigmatic writing KW - cryptography KW - hieroglyphs N1 - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; ntroduction --; Ancient Egyptian Cryptography: Graphic Hermeneutics --; The Enigmatic Frieze of Ramesses II at Luxor Temple --; In Tombs, Temples and on Scribal Palettes: Contexts and Functions of Private Cryptography during the Mid-Late Eighteenth Dynasty --; A Brief Excursus on the Mechanisms of Cryptographic Sign Substitution --; The ‘Jackal Hymn of the West’ in the Book of the Night --; Semiotic Aspects of Alienated and Cryptographic Encodings in the Netherworld Books of the New Kingdom --; The Visual Otherness of the Enigmatic Text in Some Netherworld Books of the New Kingdom; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110683882 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110683882 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110683882/original ER -