Words That Are Not Words: Digital Approaches to Magical Language and Iconography in Antiquity

By modelling magical language and imagery as a unified system of ritual signification, this paper offers a methodological contribution to the Digital Humanities. It demonstrates that fragmentary, non-standard, and non-linguistic data can be systematically analysed within integrated, relational frameworks. At the same time, it engages with Digital Storytelling by illustrating how meaning emerges through non-linear, cross-media assemblages that operate beyond conventional narrative structures.