Salient point: why you mention arrangements of inscriptions and contents at all? That is what confuses me. Either the arrangements matter at some point—such as inscribing—in which case there had been a lie when the king labeled an (apparently?) empty box with “This box contains the key.” (not “this box doesn’t contain the dagger”, which would have been true), or not at all, in which case I reiterate my previous question.
Salient point: why you mention arrangements of inscriptions and contents at all? That is what confuses me. Either the arrangements matter at some point—such as inscribing—in which case there had been a lie when the king labeled an (apparently?) empty box with “This box contains the key.” (not “this box doesn’t contain the dagger”, which would have been true), or not at all, in which case I reiterate my previous question.