Athanasii Kircheri ... Oedipvs Aegyptiacvs, Hoc Est Vniuersalis Hieroglyphicae Veterum Doctrinae temporum iniuria abolitae Instavratio: Opus ex omni Orientalium doctrina & sapientia conditum, nec non viginti diuersarum linguarum authoritate stabilitum
Athanasius Kircher's 1652 Oedipus Aegyptiacus is a Latin scholarly treatise on Egyptian hieroglyphs and Oriental learning, printed in Rome and aimed at antiquarian scholars. Its woodcut plates show ornamental cartouches, a Mexican-style deity figure, a seated Indian-style figure and a hieroglyphic roundel, giving a designer a range of ornament, symbol and figure styles drawn from early modern imagined archaeology.
