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.)

FUNERARY PAPYRUS: THIRD SCENE. BUDAPEST. MUSEUM OE FINE ARTS On scene 3 (fig. 2), a bird-shaped, human-headed bj-bird can be seen standing on a plinth, with a lotusbud on its head. At the head, there is a big hiatus due to the damage of the papyrus. The face, arms and legs of the /?i-bird are red, its wig is black. In front of it

—also on the plinth

—a small, red offering table is standing laden with bread, next to it a round-bodied jug. On the other side of the offering table, next to the plinth, there is a red and black ointment jar. The bird-shaped hi of the deceased worships with its two hands raised, the god of the sunbarque, who is the other main character of scene 3. The god is in a barque, the ends of which are serpent-heads. The serpent-head on the left, and the wdaole rear of the barque with the two rudder-stocks can only be made out very fragmentarily due to two bigger hiatuses. The barque itself is placed upon the sky-hieroglyph, and on the body of a long coiled serpent that stretches below the sky-hieroglyph at length. On board of the barque in the company of two //; ',

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i-feathers, one representation of the sungod can be seen: on a red //??-horizon, a sun-disc with an wd3t-eye inside. In the fourth and last scene (fig. 5), a field dotted with black, and closed down in a semicircular shape can be seen. In the foreground, there are two black scarabs, the upper one depicted vertically, with the head upwards, the lower one horizontally. The latter faces the beginning of the papyrus. Before the semicircular closing of the last scene, a mummy-shaped, ithyphallic god is standing on a diagonally placed plinth. He raises his right arm, his fist clenched; his left hand cannot