Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Marginalia, Scholarship & Reception

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Obelisk with Hieroglyphic Devices

HIEROGLYPHIC p5r · p.233
Obelisk with Hieroglyphic Devices
From the 1499 Aldine first edition (University of Seville copy, via Internet Archive)

Obelisk with hieroglyphic inscriptions plus circular medallion with Latin text. Two woodcuts on one page.

In the Narrative

The Polyandrion (cemetery of lovers) begins with an obelisk covered in hieroglyphics. The HP's sustained engagement with Egyptian symbolism reaches its peak here.

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