Hedvig Győry: Mélanges offerts a Edith Varga „Le lotus qui sort de terre” (Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément 1. Budapest, 2001)

LÁSZLÓ KÁKOSY: A late Horus cippus

Fig. 3. Fig. 3/a. feet means of partaking in the benefits of the god's power. Horus grasps two snakes and a scorpion with his right hand, and in his left there are again two snakes and a scorpion. Above the god the face of Bes

2 is placed, strongly oversized if compared with the figure of Horus. The details of the face, in a dominating position over this small monument, are carved with care. Bes does not wear here, however, his usual feathered headgear. While the reverse of the stela is plain, without any decoration or inscription, the top (Fig. 2, 2/a) and the sides (Fig. 3-4, 3/a-4/a) bear two columns of a pseudo-inscription consisting of meaningless groups of hieroglyphic signs. The gradual deterioration of the inscriptions of these stelae in the course of time is a wellknown phenomenon.

3 The engraver of the stela under review had obviously rather vague knowledge of the system of the hieroglyphic writing. He keeps repeating several H. Sternberg-El Hotabi, Untersuchungen zur Überlieferungeschichte der Horusstelen, ÄA. 62 I., Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 127-147, 160, 173-183. Fig. 1. Fig. 1/a. Fig. 2. Fig. 2/a.