Vezető a Déri Múzeum kiállításaihoz II. A Déri gyűjtemények. 2. javított kiadás (Debrecen, 2001)

THE EGYPTIAN, GREEK AND ROMAN COLLECTIONS 220 resin, and then they put it in a wooden coffin of the shape of a human being. The most valuable part of the Egyptian material is a collection of weapons from the days of the Middle and New Empires used for hitting, cutting and thrusting. The other parts of the collection are invariably related to the funeral cult. They include rags of mummy-bandage, lids of Kanopus pots, a dsed column symbolizing the spine of Osiris, a votive statuette, a death bird with the head of a man, an Apis bull, an African cobra, a Horus falcon, and Osiris and Isis with Horus. In the bottom section of the display case, there are three tombstones (stele) made of limestone. They have the form of standing rectangles, with chamfered arches at the top. The images depicted on them are of conventional scenes: a dead man is sitting with the sacrificial table in front of him, with the pots and food on the table placed one above the other. This also clearly demonstrates a characteristic feature of Egyptian art, i.e. the lack of drawing in perspective. The large number of amulets exhibited in the next display case indicates the great extent of respect for amulets in the late age. They were either placed near the corpses or worn on strings by the living to expel the evil spirits. These amulets, with a few exceptions, were made of the socalled Egyptian faience. Display case 4 contains the most characteristic pieces of grave furniture of the funeral cult in the New Empire, the so-called Usebti statues. The function of these statuettes was to work instead of the dead in the nether world. Display case 5 holds the god figures and the bronze statues of the animals that were considered divine creatures in the sais period (the last great period of Egyptian art): Osiris, Isis with Horus, Harpocrates, Ptah, Sekhmet, Imhotep,