Hedvig Győry: Mélanges offerts a Edith Varga „Le lotus qui sort de terre” (Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément 1. Budapest, 2001)

JOHN GEE: Towards an Interpretation of Hypocephali

Joseph Smith/Reuben Hedlock(1842) Louis Speleers Edith Varga Description 1 IX IIa four (or two) headed seated deity flanked by baboons 2 V la two-headed deity standing holding a wp-wlwt scepter 3 VI/VII Ib-c scarab beetle or beetle headed deity flanked by goddesses 4 VIII Id-e winged mummiform falcon 5 III III cow with wedjat-eye headed female figure standing behind 6 III III four figures with heads of the sons of Horus 7 III III seated figure with falcon's wings and tail raising arm facing walldng serpent holding wedjat-çyç 22-23 IX IIa baboons flanking seated deity II b-c flanking texts IV boat scenes Third, hypocephali juxtapose individual figures to each other showing an interaction of those figures, and attention must be given to the placement of the various figures. Fourth, careful attention must be paid to the interlocking of references in texts describing hypocephali with the iconography in the text themselves.