Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 104. (Budapest, 2006)
ÉVA LIPTAY: Between Heaven and Earth II: The Iconography of a Funerary Papyrus from the Twenty-First Dynasty (Part I.)
are looking in the direction of the beginning of the papyrus. None of them are treading on the body of the serpent, but all are standing next to it, on the outer side. The twelve figures are: 1. very little can be made out of the first figure, its attributes therefore —with the exception of the blue wig —cannot be identified; 2. lion-headed with a blue wig; at the lower part of its body a considerable part of the papyrus is missing; 3. a red fire-hieroglyph constitutes the head, the wig is the same colour as the upper part of the body, off-w r hite; its body is incomplete in two places due to the damages of the papyrus; 4. based on the head, the animal is most probably a kind of a shrew, or a mouse/rat (the papyrus is damaged at the ear, which would be an important attribute for identification); with a red wig; 5. bearded (?) serpent-headed; with a red wig; 6. baboon-headed (with red face); with a blue wig; a tiny hiatus at the neck due to the damage of the papyrus; 7. a red sun-disc was placed on the figure's neck between tw r o blue knives; with a blue wig; there is a big hiatus below the hip due to the damage of the papyrus; 8. a figure with a serpent's neck and head; with a red wig; 9. the figure's head is made up of a red sun-disc placed upon a blue j/U-sign, surrounded by two serpents; with a blue wig; 10. the figure's neck and head on the trunk is made up of a cobra with a blown-up neck; with a red wig; 11. the figure's neck and head on the trunk is made up of a cobra with a blown-up neck; with a red wig; 12. a red knife constitutes the last figure's head; with a blue wig. Into the enormous seprent's head, which has horns and keeps down on the ground, two knives are lodging. Behind and in front of the tenth figure and behind the eleventh, there are smaller hiatuses on the serpent's body due to the damage of the papyrus. The blue used for the serpent's body and the clothing of the twelve figures was given up from the second motif: on scenes 2-4, black and red dominate the decoration. The second motif (fig. 7) is a serpent's body standing on four red legs, the body ends in a bearded serpent's head on both ends. A red sun-disc was placed between the heads. There is a crack running through the papyrus before the serpent's head on the right, and on the left at the body and head, there are two big hiatuses due to the damage of the papyrus.
