Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 94. (Budapest, 2001)

GYŐRY, HEDVIG: To the Interpretation of Pataikos Standing on Crocodiles

Above the back of the lion a winged ureus,

53 an inscription {ntr nfr nb t3wj in complete, incomplete

54 or convulsed form

55 ) or other hieroglyphic text,

56 sometimes cartouche,

57 /zs-vessel,

58 horizontal (

nh sign

59 and dd-pillar,

60 sundisk with diacritic mark,

61 falcon with or without sundisk,

62 sledge alone

63 and with nb-basket

64 can be frequently seen on seals. On the seal discussed the two horizontal lines of the incision above the lion and the vertical lines connecting the horizontal lines can be told clearly, and above the head of the lion not only a small line going downwards can be distinguished but a small line going upwards, too. It makes likely reading of „sledge" hieroglyph. In this case the possibility of a scene or an ordinary inscription can be precluded, the elements of the incision can only be explained as a trigram. Normally the reading of sledge is tm, in acrophony it can be so the group of the signs can be read as a cryptographic name of Atum. Theoretically, in another possibility as the reading of the sledge can be „ím" and the reading of the lion can be „w", the complete ,,'Itmw" - form of the name Atum might appear.

65 It is very interesting that c

nh + sledge + lion trigram belongs to the usual sign group used on scarabs and other type seal amulets, but it does not occur on another kind of 53 Jaeger, op. cit. (note 40),pp. 162-164, 170, notes 617-618; Giveon, op. cit. (note41),pp. 172-173. no. 102670; Hodjas, op. cit. (note 41). no. 1560. "

,4 Jaeger, op. cit. (note 40), pp. 162-164, 170, notes 617-618; Brunton - Engelbach, op. cit. (note 6), pi. XLI, no. 71. 55 Brunner-Traut - Brunner, op. cit. (note 51), p. 168, no. 510, fig. 104. 56 Hodjash, op. cit. (note 41), no. 1550, cf. Grenfell, A., Les divinités et les animaux figurés sur les scarabées, sur les scaraboides, les plaques, le chatons et les amulettes. Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Rendiconti, Classe di scienze morale, storiche e filologiche, Roma 1908,5/17. pp. 135-155, no. 45; Hodjash, op. cit. (note 41), no. 1561, cf. Tunfell, O., Lachish IV. The Bronze Age. London - New York - Toronto 1958, pl. 40, no. 368. 57 Giveon - Kertész, op. cit. (note 46), pp. 26-27, no. 82. 58 Giveon - Kertész, op. cit. (note 46), pp. 26-21, no. 83; Hodjash, op. cit. (note 41), no. 1562. 59 Giveon. op. cit. (note 41), pp. 186-187, no. 102578; Hodjash, op. cit. (note 41). nos. 1554-1557: Newberry, op. cit. (note 40). CG 36642. 60 Uranic, op. cit. (note 48), pl. XXX-XXXI, p. 275, no. 3. 61 Giveon, op. cit. (note 41), pp. 156-157, no. 103037; Hodjash, op. cit. (note 41), no. 1551. 62 Hodjash, op. cit. (note 41), p. 191, nos. 1563-1565; cf. Grenfell, A., The Ka on Scarabs, RT 37 ( 1915) pp. 77-93. nos. 59. 60: Petrie. op. cit. (note 14), pl. XXXIV, 83; Monnet Saleh, J., Les antiquités égyptiennes de Zagreb. Paris - La-Haye, 1970, nos. 144, 169. 63 Hodjash, op. cit. (note 41), no. 1558; Hayes, W.C.,.//VES 10/3 (1951) p. 103, fig. 33; Petrie, op. cit. (note 8), pl. XXIII, no. 78 = Petrie. Fl. Buttons and Design Scarabs, BSAE 38, London 1925, pis. XVIII, XXX, 1421 = Thomas, A.T., Gurob: A New Kingdom Town, Vol. I. Introduction and Catalogue of Objects in the Petrie Collection. Egyptology Today 5, vol. I., Warminster 1981. p. 79, no. 657. Vol. II, pi. 34, no. 657; Brunton - Engelbach, op. cit. (note 6), pi. XLI, 89; for more examples see: Jaeger, op. cit. (note 40), notes 600-601. 64 Smith, H. S., The Fortress of Buhen. The Inscriptions. EES. 48th Excavation Memoir, London, 1976, pl. XLIV, no. 1657. 65 Anyway, I could not find examples for that writing method yet, cf. Mysliwiec, K., Studien zum Gott Atum, Band II. Name-Epitheta-Ikonographie. Hildesheim 1979. For sound volume of the lion as w see Daumas, op. at. (note 39), /. pp. 230-23 1.