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iconography of a Twenty-first Dynasty funerary papyrus." Second part, Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 105 (2006), 19. E. Hornung, Das Buch von den Pforten des Jenseits, II (Aegyptiaca Helvetica 8), Basel and Genève 1980, 251-57; E. Elornung, Ägyptische Unterweltsbücher, Zurich and Munich 1972, 285-87; E. Hornung, Die Nachtfahrt der Sonne. Eine altägyptische Beschreibung des Jenseits, Düsseldorf and Zurich 1998, 178-81; J. Zeidler, Pfortenbuch Studien. Kritische Edition des Pfortenbuches nach den versionén des Neuen Reiches II (Göttinger Orientforschungen EV 36), Wiesbaden 1999, 318-19. See also A. Piankoff, "Les grandes compositions religieuses du Nouvel Empire et la réforme d'Amarna", Bulletin de l'Institut Français d Archéologie Orientale 62 (1964), 214-15; K. Mysliwiec, "A propos des signes hiéroglyphiques 'Ar' et Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 98 (1972), 94 and fig. 16; K. BosseGriffiths, "Some Egyptian Bead-Work Faces"

', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 64 (1978), 103; C.-B. Arnst, Vernetzung. Zur Symbolik des Mumiennetzes (www2.hu-berlin.de/nilus/net-publications/ibaesl/ Arnst/text.pdf), 88 and Abb. 5. 17 Hornung 1972, 287. 18 The attitude of "facing" as an iconographical motif is not a common feature of Egyptian representations: its application, therefore, always indicates that it must have a significant role in the symbolism of the composition. The face and the eyes (i.e. the direction in which they are glancing) are the most important channels / media through which the superhuman / divine abilities and capacities and all kinds of magic power can be revealed

—both in regard to benevolent and destructive forces (Hornung 1972, 279 and 466-67; J. Assmann, "Furcht", in W. Helck and W. Westendorf eds., Lexikon der Agypotologie II, Wiesbaden 1977, 364; E. Brunner-Traut, "Vorderansicht", in W. Helck and W. Westendorf eds., Lexikon der Ägyptologie VI, Wiesbaden 1986, 1062-67. On the evil eye of Apophis: J. F. Borghouts, "The Victorious Eyes: A Structural Analysis of Two Egyptian Mythologizing Texts of the Middle Kingdom", in Studien zu Sprache und religion Ägyptens. Zu Ehren von W. Westendorf, Göttingen 1984, 703-16; J. F. Borghouts, "The Evil Eye of Apophis", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 59 (1973), 114-50; Assmann 1977, 364 (Nehaher, Apophis, i.e. the enemy of the solar god). 19 The Eye as creator: Liptay 2006, 17-18, with references; A. Niwiriski, Studies on the Illustrated Theban Funerary Papyri of the 11

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th Centuries B. C. (Orbis Bibicus et Orientalis 86), Freiburg and Göttingen 1989, fig. 57e. 20 Coffin Texts IV 174 f-i; see L. Troy, Patterns of Queenship in Ancient Egyptian Myth and History (BOREAS 14), Uppsala 1986, 24.