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

ANDREY O. BOLSHAKOV: Osiris in the Forth Dynasty Again? The false door of 'Intj, MFA 31.781

II. Iconography and style 4. The figure oïJntj on the false door panel (fig. 1) has practically all of the distinguishing characteristics of the so- called second style of the Old Kingdom (after Russmann) with its deliberate "exaggeration of some features and suppression of others": "overlarge head", "long, narrow body, pinched at the waist", "muscles suppressed, especially on the arms, which are excessively attenuated", "hands oversized", 21 large nose and lips; the exaggerated size of the lotus flower belongs to the same group of features (cf. with the proportions of the similar picture of N(j)C

nhhnm(w),

22 fig. 2). All these peculiarities were discussed by Edna Russmann as concerns sculpture, but they are characteristic also of two-dimensional representations of the second style (though the latter still demand a special scrutiny).

23 In sculpture, the second style emerged in the late Fifth Dynasty, the reign of Unis witnessing the appearance of such masterpieces as the statues of Mttj,

24 and approximately the same dating is applicable to reliefs. 5. The traditional table scene is replaced on the false door panel of Jntj by the representation of the owner sitting; the space in front of her figure is filled with her name spelled in enormous hieroglyphs. Such a reduction of the table 21 E. Russmann, A Second Style in Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom, MDAIK 51 (1995), pp. 269-270. 27 A. Moussa-H. Altenmüller, Das Grab des Nianchchnum und Chnumhotep, Mainz 1977, fig. 20. 25 Russmann, op. cit. (note 21), p. 274, note 49. 24 Russmann, op. cit. (note 21), pp. 274-276. Fig. 1. Fig. 2.