Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 104. (Budapest, 2006)

ÉVA LIPTAY: Between Heaven and Earth II: The Iconography of a Funerary Papyrus from the Twenty-First Dynasty (Part I.)

BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH II THE ICONOGRAPHY OF A FUNERARY PAPYRUS FROM THE TWENTY-FIRST DYNASTY PART I ÉVA LIPTAY The Egyptian Department of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts has one funerary papyrus, which dates from the Twenty-first Dynasty (fig. 1). It can be seen at the permanent exhibition of the Egyptian Department.

1 Its length is 1, the width is 0.1 meter. It passed into the Museum's proprietorship through a purchase from Sándor Bikfalvi in 1935. I FUNERARY PAPYRUS. BUDAPEST, MUSEUM OF FINE ARCS The first part of the papyrus is incomplete: part of the first motif is missing, but there are damages and hiatuses elsewhere, as well. The remaining part of the papyrus has no inscription on it. The sequence of scenes is divided into four well separable parts. At the top and bottom of the papyrus at full length, a thin black line indicates the upper and lower boundary of the scenes. The contour lines which are often quite wide, used wdaen drawing the figures, get a considerable emphasis due to the puritan colouring of the decoration. Due to the damage of the papyrus, the beginning of the first motif

—a huge, greyish-blue serpent in the coils of which there are twelve standing, mummy-shaped figures (fig. 6)—is missing. The body of the standing figures wrapped up in linen is the same off-white as the background from the waist upwards, and it is red down from the waist. All twelve standing figures