Enigmatic Writing in the Egyptian New Kingdom, V. 2: Lexicon of Ancient Egyptian Cryptography of the New Kingdom 9783110683660
This is the first synthesis on Egyptian enigmatic writing (also referred to as “cryptography”) in the New Kingdom (c.155
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Works cited
Introductionary Notes
§ 1 Introduction
§ 2 Scope and limits of the cryptographic corpus
§ 3 Organization of the corpus
§ 4 Typographical conventions
§ 5 Citation conventions
§ 6 Substitution mechanisms
6.1 Acrophony
6.2 The Consonantal Principle
6.3 Class substitutions
6.4 Direct representation, antonomasia, and metonymy
6.5 Logograms and the rebus principle
6.6 Objects held or worn by cipher-figures
6.7 Phonetic interchange
6.8 Shape substitutions and substitutions from the Hieratic
6.9 Sportive writings or “visual puns”
6.10 Synecdoche: part for whole and whole for part
6.11 Synonymy
6.12 Unknown mechanisms
Part 1 Cryptographic sign-list
A Men
B Women
C Anthropomorphic deities
D Parts of the human body
E Mammals
F Parts of Mammals
G Birds
H Parts of birds
I Amphibians, reptiles, and their parts
K Fish and their parts
L Invertebrates
M Plants
N Earth, sky, and water
O Buildings and their parts
P Ships and their parts
Q Domestic and funerary furniture
R Temple furniture and sacred emblems
S Crowns, dress, and staves
T Warfare, hunting, and butchery
U Agriculture, crafts, and professional tools
V Rope, fiber, and baskets
W Vessels of stone and earthenware
X Loaves and cakes
Y Writing, games, and music
Z Strokes and signs derived from Hieratic
Aa Unclassified
Part 2 Reverse Index of Cryptographic Values, by Phonetic Order
ɜ–j
jɜ.t–jmn
jmn.tj–ᶜ
ᶜ.t–Wɜs.t
w–wḥm-ḫᶜ.w
Wsjr–bj.tj
bjk–Ptḥ-tɜ-ṯnn
f–mɜ(ɜ)
mɜᶜ–mds
n–nb.t
nb.tj–nṯr
nṯr ᶜɜ–ḥ
ḥɜ–ḥḥ
ḥzj–ḫpd
ḫft–ẖr.wj
s–smɜ-tɜ.wj
smr–sḏr
š–kbn
Km.t–tj
tj.t Jmn–ṯn (tn)
d–ḏ
ḏ.t–Det. Rᶜ
Det. ḫᶜj–Det. ḏ.t
Appendix: Index of cryptographic signs by number
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Works cited
Introductionary Notes
§ 1 Introduction
§ 2 Scope and limits of the cryptographic corpus
§ 3 Organization of the corpus
§ 4 Typographical conventions
§ 5 Citation conventions
§ 6 Substitution mechanisms
6.1 Acrophony
6.2 The Consonantal Principle
6.3 Class substitutions
6.4 Direct representation, antonomasia, and metonymy
6.5 Logograms and the rebus principle
6.6 Objects held or worn by cipher-figures
6.7 Phonetic interchange
6.8 Shape substitutions and substitutions from the Hieratic
6.9 Sportive writings or “visual puns”
6.10 Synecdoche: part for whole and whole for part
6.11 Synonymy
6.12 Unknown mechanisms
Part 1 Cryptographic sign-list
A Men
B Women
C Anthropomorphic deities
D Parts of the human body
E Mammals
F Parts of Mammals
G Birds
H Parts of birds
I Amphibians, reptiles, and their parts
K Fish and their parts
L Invertebrates
M Plants
N Earth, sky, and water
O Buildings and their parts
P Ships and their parts
Q Domestic and funerary furniture
R Temple furniture and sacred emblems
S Crowns, dress, and staves
T Warfare, hunting, and butchery
U Agriculture, crafts, and professional tools
V Rope, fiber, and baskets
W Vessels of stone and earthenware
X Loaves and cakes
Y Writing, games, and music
Z Strokes and signs derived from Hieratic
Aa Unclassified
Part 2 Reverse Index of Cryptographic Values, by Phonetic Order
ɜ–j
jɜ.t–jmn
jmn.tj–ᶜ
ᶜ.t–Wɜs.t
w–wḥm-ḫᶜ.w
Wsjr–bj.tj
bjk–Ptḥ-tɜ-ṯnn
f–mɜ(ɜ)
mɜᶜ–mds
n–nb.t
nb.tj–nṯr
nṯr ᶜɜ–ḥ
ḥɜ–ḥḥ
ḥzj–ḫpd
ḫft–ẖr.wj
s–smɜ-tɜ.wj
smr–sḏr
š–kbn
Km.t–tj
tj.t Jmn–ṯn (tn)
d–ḏ
ḏ.t–Det. Rᶜ
Det. ḫᶜj–Det. ḏ.t
Appendix: Index of cryptographic signs by number
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