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to gods as well is a logical issue of the process that took place in the iconography of that period, known as "humanisation" (van Walsem 1997, 351-52). Figures in the middle register: snake-headed, with wigs and feathers on the heads; the lines of the second and third figures have completely disappeared due to the above mentioned damp stain. Figures of the lower register: of the first figure only the head is visible (human-headed with a beard); the shape of the second figure cannot really be reconstructed from the waist upwards; the contours of the third male figure can only be guessed at. On the base of the surviving groups of deities on the left side, however, one can suppose that the composition of the individual registers of the damaged right side must have corresponded with the opposite ones. Therefore we can attempt to reconstruct the damaged or now invisible groups (middle register: snake-headed —human-headed —hawk-headed; lower register: three human-headed figures). The borders of each panel are formed by the motif imitating a mat base above the figures, and a sole broad dark green band below them. For the sun disc-headed chthonic being, see Niwiriski 1988, pl. XXIIA (on the inner decoration of the coffin, depicted with a beard); D. C. Patch, Reflections of Greatness. Ancient Egypt at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburg 1990, 69 (on the side wall, with uraeus); A. Piankoff and N. Rambova, Mythological Papyri, New York 1957, No. 15; A. M. Blackman, The Funerary Papyrus of c Enkhefenkhons, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology IV{\9\1), pl. XXYT (sitting on the top of a mound, with uraeus, in a Twenty-first Dynasty interpretation of the 12 n hour of the Amduat, in the upper register). Figures of the middle register: snake-headed, with wigs and feathers on the heads; bearded humanheaded, with ointment cones and lotus flowers on the heads; hawk-headed, with a wig. Figures of the lower register: three human-headed bearded beings, with ointment cones and lotus flowers on the heads. K. Babraj and H. Szymahska, Bogowie Starozytnego Egiptu / The gods of Ancient Egypt, Krakow 2000, no. 23. A further example of an otherwordly figure with the en face representation of his head in the same iconographical position: O. Berlev and S. Hodjash, Catalogue of the Monuments of Ancient Egypt from the Museums of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Bielorussia, Caucasus, Middle Asia and the Baltic States (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 17 Series Archaeologica), Fribourg and Göttingen 1998, pl. 49 (11.22.31). See also H. M. Stew r art, Mummy-cases and inscribed funerary cones in the Petrie Collection, Warminster and Oak Park 1986, pi. 8. "Osiris mit vielen Gestalten, mit vielen Namen und mit vielen Gesichtern", see Sammler - Pilger Wegbereiter. Die Sammlung des Prinzen Johann Georg von Sachsen, Mainz am Rhein 2004, 37 (1.4.3). J. Assmann, Liturgische Lieder an den Sonnengott. Untersuchungen zur altägyptischen Hymnik I (Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 19), Berlin 1969, 49-52; E. Liptay, "Between heaven and earth II. The
