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: FOURTH SCENE. BUDAPEST, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS theme, but iconographically showing considerably different means.

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" The locale where the motif appears is the same in every case: the eastern horizon of the sky, and the time is the sunrise at dawn. Due to the first of the three iconographie changes described above, the Osiris figure originally placed in the lower register becomes a huge god figure dominating the whole scene. The figure ol the deity becoming so big shows the impact of the Book of Caverns as well;

19 and all that is completed by the emphasis of the ithyphallic character, also present there. The figure of the god represents at the same time the figure of the sun-god being reborn and that of Osiris remaining in the Underworld, at the moment of their mystical union. He is the Re-Osiris on the eastern horizon.

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" The scene depicts in fact one moment: the rebirth manifested in the sunrise, the daily repetition of the creation of the universe. In the next moment, the change is going to take place: the creation will be actualised, and as a logical consequence Re and Osiris separate from each other. At that moment, however, the character of Re-Osiris occupies everything and is present ubiquitously and simultaneously. His legs are standing in the depths of the Underworld (htmyt): in the place where the damned not finding salvation are suffering.

21 His head and arm reach the sky (Nut//?rvt). He holds the sky high (twipt) and he makes the Underworld deep (smd dlt);

22 he divides the two, but at the same time his figure assures the transition between them.