Catalog of Samaritan Deities (Oedipus Aegyptiacus)

The image features a block of Latin text printed in a serif typeface on textured, cream-colored paper. The top portion is a four-line verse, while the lower portion lists ten numbered entries connecting diverse mythological figures, such as 'Thartac Typhon' and 'Ciun, Rephan, Saturnus'. The layout mimics a scholarly index or table of contents from a 17th-century printed folio.

This is an excerpt from Athanasius Kircher’s 'Oedipus Aegyptiacus' (1652–1654), a central text in the history of Western Hermeticism and the attempted decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, reflecting the syncretic intellectual culture of the Baroque era.