Artists and theologist of Ancient Egypt worked together in the emergence of iconographies and they combined different planes of meaning: images and words.

That is why reading the Egyptian art requires an iconographic and textual analysis.

The Egyptian art: a language of signs.

The Egyptian art is a language of signs and just like the Egyptian language, it uses word games; that is decoration often plays games of images.

Writing of the verb TO CREATE (left) with the substantive EYE (right) in Ancient Egypt.

In the Egyptian language, we find a very graphic example when comparing the verb “to do” or “to create” with the substantive “eye”:

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