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LIPTAY, ÉVA: Between Heaven and Earth. The Motif of the Cow Coming out of the Mountain

6. The variant of the scene. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts the latter helps him to ascend to the nocturnal sky. These two forms mingle with each other in Hathor's nb.t mSr.w (Mistress of the Western Mountain - Mistress of the Evening) epithet.

45 This aspect of the goddess is one of the three Western Souls (b>.w jmn.tjw).

46 * The scene of "the cow coming out of the Mountain" on New Kingdom BD Ch. 186 vignettes and on coffins and papyri from the 21

st Dynasty depicts the same event: the deceased arrives at the entrance of the West and there he meets the goddess. On the other hand, Ramesside private tombs testify concerning the tendency that the figure of the Hathor-cow can alternate with that of the Sycamore-goddess (fig. 6).

47 They were considered as interchangeable forms since they fulfil the same function within the scene. On the double meaning of mSr.w: B. Altenmüller, Synkretismus (n. 4) 133; LÄGG IV (OLA 113), 67 = „Die Herrin des Abends" CT II 387a / BD 108; Sethe, K., Die Sprüche für das Kennen der Seelen der heiligen Orte, ZÄS 59 (1924) 73-99. For example: on coffin no. 51.2094 of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, unpublished. Further examples: Niwihski, A., La seconde trouvaille de Deir el-Bahari (Sarcophages) (CG 6029-6068), Le Caire 1996 (henceforth abbreviated La seconde trouvaille), fig. 23; Gasse, A., Les sarcophages de la Troisième Period Intermédiaire du Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Città del Vaticano 1996, pl. XVI. The two pictures at one place: Niwihski, La seconde trouvaille, 14-15 and fig. 34; Niwihski, 27

st Dynasty (n. 3) pl. XVII B.