Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)

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

4 THE SCENE OF THE TOMB Or RAMESSES VI, AFTER P1ANKOFF-RAMBOVÄ l

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>54 FIG. 139 child comes into this world at dawn, in the East.

14 It follows from this that the solar eye (or to be more precise, its pupil which strongly resembles the sun disc) is partly identifiable with her womb, but personifies the daughter of the sun-god at the same time.

15 This is why the Book of Caverns refers to the scene of events appearing in the Budapest papyrus, i.e. the eastern edge of the Netherworld as the place of dfdyw ("Those relating to the pupil"), i.e. those that have not yet been reborn.

16 Analysing the scene of Ramesses IX's tomb Darnell

17 also drew attention to the close connection of the solar eye to the eastern (or south-eastern) cardinal point which in one respect can clearly be considered as the point where the sun rises and as the birth of the solar child,