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.)

Also on two other papyri the four sons of Horus appear in the coils of the serpent: Piankoff and Rambova 1957, No. 13 (fire is coming out of the mouth of the two middle figures and the serpent); and Piankoff and Rambova 1957, No. 7. Piankoff and Rambova 1957, No. 25 made another interesting variation: the large serpent is connected to the closing picture here as well, which is this time at the beginning of the papyrus, but several different motifs appear on its body besides the ten standing netherworld figures. This is also especially emphasised on the Heruben papyrus, but is placed several scenes before the closing scene, similarly to the Budapest version. The positive and negative aspects are difficult to tell apart in this case too, as the flame-breathed serpent of the Book of Gates appears as a negative power at other times: Zeidler 1999, 269, Anm. 1. Niwinski discussing the scene (Akten des vierten Internationalen Agyptologen Kongresses München 1985, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Beihefte 3 (1988), 310-14) relates it to the 18th chapter of the Book of the Dead, the topic of which is the judgement in Osiris' case of the different divine courts built up of groups of three, and to some motifs of the Book of Gates (4th hour, 21st picture) and Book of Caverns (3/lst register/lst picture). Niwinski and others relate this scene to Apophis appearing under the sun-barque, and to the 12th hour of the Amduat: Niwinski 1988, 313-14; Englund 1974, 47-49. It can be seen that again it is the same range of ideas as that of the Budapest papyrus. Englund 1974, 47-49; Niwinski 1988, 312-13. B. H. Strieker, "De groote zeeslang," Mededelingen en verhandelingen 10 (1953), 8; Borghouts 1984, 709-10 and n. 67; P. A. Piccione, "Mehen, Mysteries, and Resurrection from the Coiled Serpent," Journal of American Research Center in Egypt 27 (1990). Hornung, AmduatII(note 5), 188-89; Hornung 1972, 185-90. That enormous serpent is undoubtedly identical with the many-coiled Mehen serpent appearing in the former, 11th hour embracing the world, which is also taken by the twelve netherworld figures on their heads, also in front of the sun-barque, towards the gate of the eastern horizon: Hornung, AmduatII(note 5), 178-79; Hornung 1972, 185. See also: Piccione 1990, 50. Hornung 1998, 185-88; W: Barta, Komparative Untersuchungen zu vier Unterweltsbüchern (Münchener Agyptologische Untersuchungen /), Frankfurt am Main, Bern, New York, and Paris 1990, 56-58. In one case the serpent is drawn by four netherworld figures with a rope ending in serpent's heads, and the symbols of the sunrise are placed on the serpent's body itself (instead of a sun-barque): Niwinski 1989, pl. 48b. Cf. with "the more traditional" adaptations: Niwinski 1989, fig. 79; Piankoff and Rambova 1957, No. 26 (Cairo JdE 95648); Gasse 1996, pl. VI.4.1. Niwinski 1989, fig. 81.