The third international, and this time also interdisciplinary conference in the series Ägyptologische ‚Binsen‘-Weisheiten, with the theme "Forms and Functions of Sign List and Palaeography", dealt with methodological and content-related questions on character analysis and the edition of hieroglyphic and hieratic sources. The present volume includes 11 contributions on the literary culture of Ancient Egypt from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period as well as a detailed research report of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy project on the writing system of the Classical Maya. Now available from Franz Steiner Verlag.