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ÉVA LIPTAY: Between Heaven and Earth II: The Iconography of a Funerary Papyrus from the Twenty-First Dynasty (Part I.)

the horizon. The place of a spirit, the place ofpotent magic. He is a man a million (cubits) tall, he is within the darkness, and he is invisible..." About the text: E. Hermsen, Die zwei Wege des Jenseits (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 112), Freiburg and Göttingen 1991, 132-34. :1 Darnell 2004, 376-79. : Ibid., 408; D. Kurth, Den Himmel stützen. Die ti

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,,-Szenen in den ägyptischen Tempeln der griechischrömischen Epoche (Rites égyptiens II), Brussels 1975, 11-12 and 149. See in the hymn of the Imiseba tomb (TT 65): "Your head is heaven, your feet are the Netherworld" (J. Assmann, Sonnenhymnen in thebanischen Gräbern (Theben I), Mainz am Rhein 1983, no. 88, 124-25 and Darnell 2004, 377-78, n. 14). :i Dorman 1999, 85 and n. 10. 24 The texts to the complex god figures of the New Kingdom hymns served as a direct precursor and source to these representations. To the complex god figures in the late Ramesside period see T. Bács, "Amun-Re-Harachti in the Late Ramesside Royal Tombs," in The Intellectual Heritage of Egypt (Stadia Aegyptiaca 14), ed. U. Luft, Budapest 1992, 42-53. In connection with that see the text of the 12

th hour of the Amduat: "The secret image of Shu, who separates heaven from earth, from the complete darkness.. A (Hornung, Amduat I, 197; Amduat II, 188); and Darnell 2004, 409-12. :f> The same thing in the Twenty-first Dynasty for example: Piankoff and Rambova 1957, No. 24; Niwinski 1989, fig. 59. On the side of the lower part of a coffin in the scene of "separating Heaven and Earth" the upper body of Shu is made up of a sun-disc: A. Niwinski, 21

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' Dynasty Coffins from Thebes. Chronological and Typological Studies (Theben 5), Mainz am Rhein 1988, pl. XVI A. 27 This very scene in a Schlußszene version: Niwinski 1989, 41 and E. Hornung, Tal der Könige, Zurich and Munich 1983, 184. 28 Piankoff and Rambova 1957, No. 26 = Niwinski 1989, fig. 41. :

" G. Nagel, "Un papyrus funéraire de la fin du Nouvel Empire [Louvre 3292 (Inv.)]," Bulletin de l'InstitutFrançais dArchéologie Orientale 29 (1929), 103-05. For the emblematic personifications where the limbs express an action

—in connection with the arms emerging from the horizon and taking over or handing over a sun-disc: J. Baines, Fecundity Figures. Egyptian Personification and the Iconology of a Genre, Warminster 1985, 45-46. ,{) Niwinski 1989, fig.l. A winged sun-disc with arms, as the illustration of Chapter 71 of the Book of the Dead in TT 2: M. Saleh, Das Totenbuch in den thebanischen Beamtengräbern des Neuen Reiches, Mainz 1986, 37 and Abb. 41. See also: R. H. Wilkinson, Reading Egyptian Art. A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture, London 1996, 50/2. !| The vignette of chapter 168 of the Book of the Dead on papyrus BM 10010 (Muthetepti, Dynastv 21): R. O. Faulkner and C. Andrews, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, London 1985, 168;