Greg Reeder Wrote:
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> See David's: A Guide to Religious Ritual At Abydos
> p. 39.
>
> Upper right, Horus presents the two urai staffs to
> the King. See for discussion of the staffs but
> from a different scene.
>
> See:
>
> for KGG's notes on this scene.
>
>
> on page 36 is the translation as KGG noted. But
> there is something more of interest here.
>
> "Thou siezest my office, my throne and my seat
> upon earth since I appeared on the seat of my
> father. I give it to thee to rule the Two Lands 19
> like a well-doing son like unto thee." This is ft
> noted as number '19'. On page 176 of the notes
> under number 19 we find:
>
> "These phrases appear in cryptographic writing."
>
> Why would this scene, where the god Horus is
> handing to the King two urai staffs of Upper and
> Lower Egypt, have some of the text (the text about
> handing over the two urai staffs) written in
> cryptographic hieroglyphs?

I don't see the relevance: cryptographic writing occurs where any number of phrases or words are rendered in substitutive glyphs or renderings which mean what is transcribed/translated, but the glyphs are not the usual ones expected.

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg

Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom