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)
One can meet an inventive adoption of the motif of Aker and the sun barque in the tomb of Ramesses VI (fig. 4) that has been mentioned above in connection with the boat ending in snake heads. Here the passengers of the barque are the ram-headed sun-god and his similarly ram-headed bl. It is followed by an already well-known depiction, two aspects of the sun-god, the ram-headed nightly one and the scarab, just emerging from the disc above and below. The hymn to the sun-god contained in the papyrus of Djedkhonsiufankh I, 60 i.e. the adopter of the Ramesses VI version is indicative of the fact that the intended content of the scene is to express the complex feature of the god in the moment preceding the sunrise. 61 4. 4. 3. B/-BIRD ALONE The bl of Re in the New Kingdom versions of the Litany of Re was usually manifested in a ram-headed entity or the ram-headed soul-bird. 62 In a Twenty-first Dynasty papyrus 6 ' one can also find a sole /?>-bird in the centre of the disc, which is being worshipped by a pair of uraei on each side. Elsewhere the same bl is supplemented with the sign group îhty. 64 The disc is lifted up in this case —similarly to one example mentioned above 6—by the figure of Nun partly emerged from the earth and surrounded by a worshipping baboon and the sign of the West on each side. In another example a hieroglyph of the sun disc appears with an additional stroke in the company of the bl: a structure, which alludes to the reading bl R c . 66 4. 4. 4. PHOENIX One of the motifs in the papyrus of Dirpu applies the symbol of the sun disc placed upon a chapel structure, but in this case one can find the figure of a phoenix in the place of the blbird. 67 Milde 68 observes with reference to the vignette of chapter 85 of the BD ("Spell for being transformed into a living soul and not entering into the place of execution; he who knows it will never perish") that —considering the fact that this one is usually followed by the two phoenix-chapters —the depiction of the phoenix can be interpreted as the manifestation of the deceased, providing an alternative to the common representation of the transformation into bl r nh, i.e. the human-headed bl-birâ or the ram with a wick. 69 4. 5. THE bl OF RE The above listed examples make it evident that in the iconographie repertoire of Twenty-first Dynasty Thebes the representation of the solar eye 7( V/;o'-bird/phoenix 71 inside the disc appears in the same semantic context and can be alternated with each other. All of them are meant to
