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

ANDREY O. BOLSHAKOV: Osiris in the Forth Dynasty Again? The false door of 'Intj, MFA 31.781

m) Nfr-jr.t-n.f, Saqqara D 55. Cherpion's dating: reign of Neferirkara. Traditional dating: reign of Neferirkara or later, but the tomb may be as late as the reigns of Isesi - Unis.

78 n) Wp-m-nfr.t, Giza, Central Field. Cherpion's dating: reign of Neferefra. Traditional dating: reigns of Niuserra - Isesi.

79 o) Jzjr

nh(w.), false door BM 1383. Cherpion's dating: reign of Neferefra. Traditional dating: middle Fifth Dynasty or later.

80 Thus, this iconographie feature most probably emerged in the beginning of the Fifth Dynasty, but became common only under Niuserra. It also should not be forgotten that the artist of Jntj used a simplified version of the scene: the cushion is folded in two, but the back of the chair is not shown. In Cherpion's list, the earliest tomb with this version is that of H

c

(j).f-hw(j).f-w(j) II (G 7150) dating back to the reign of Niuserra/

1 8. The papyrus umbel decorating the back part of the chair of Jntj is rather small. The shape of this decorative element is not a reliable dating criterion, but a general tendency towards its reduction in the course of time is obvious.

82 III. Epigraphy 9. Although the name — UN Jntj

. both male and female, becomes common only in the second half of the Fifth Dynasty (under Niuserra - Isesi),

83 it was in use also in the Fourth Dynasty

84 and so it cannot contribute much to the dating. 10. The shape of the sign t with an incorrect pattern of overlapping of the leaves

, like that on the false door of Jntj (fig. 3), is characteristic of the Fifth Dynasty and later periods, while in the high qualify Fourth Dynasty inscriptions, the leaves usually overlap alternatively.

85 However, this rule is far from 71 Harpur, op. cit. (note 3), p. 214:440. 79 Harpur, op. cit. (note 3), p. 266:56; cf. PM IIP, p. 281. 80 PM IIP, 742 (the false door has a torus and a cavetto cornice and, thus, it cannot be earlier than the middle Fifth Dynasty, see note 19). *' Harpur, op. tit. (note 3), p. 269:184. xl Cherpion, op. cit (note 61), 32-33 and especially note 31. 83 E.g., H. Ranke, Die ägyptischen Personennamen I, Glückstadt 1935, 38:23; PM IIP, pp 370, 957 and the respective references. M E.g., W. M. F. Pétrie, Mediim, London 1892, pi. 14; A. Mariette. Les mastabas de l'Ancienne Empire. Paris, 1889, p. 94. *

5 H. G. Fischer. A Scribe of the Army in the Saqqara Mastaba of the Early Fifth Dynasty, JNES 18 (1959), pp. 269-271; idem, Dendera in the Third Millennium B.C., New York 1968, p. 17; idem., Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy, New York 1979, p. 34.