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.)

be seen. The colour of the body, where not covered by the mummy-linen, is black. The two linen-bands characteristic of the Twenty-first Dynasty, crossing on the chest are red, as is the wig. The closing motif of the last scene is a red sun-disc spreading its two arms around the god standing in front of it. The spread arms follow the curve of the semicircular closing. The double curve of the semicircular closing imitates the sky-hieroglyph. Niwinski included this object in the system created by him into category III. 2a,

2 the characteristic of which is that at first sight it chooses quite freely from the remarkably rich range of motifs, which borrows mainly from among the symbols of the netherworld books used in New Kingdom royal tombs; moreover, it boldly modifies and varies the motifs taken from that. Following from that, the papyri of this type are fairly different from one another, despite the common features.

3 The key-scene of the papyrus is the last one, the one with the semicircular closing, and its key-figure is the ithyphallic figure depicted there (fig. 5). The motif is nothing more than a developed version of the closing scene (so-called Schlußszene) of the Amduat. From an iconographie viewpoint, the similar scene on the so-called enigmatic wall of the tomb of Ramesses IX may be regarded as its precursor in many respects

4 (fig. 3). 3 THE SO-CALLED ENIGMATIC WALL IN THE TOMB OF RAMSES IX, AFTER GU ILM ANT 1907. PL. LXIII.. WITH PERMISSION OF THE I FAO. In the New Kingdom Amduat-versions in the closing scene of the last (12th) hour of the night, which depicts the first moment of the sunrise, the mummy-shaped Osiris, placed in the lower register (remaining in the Underworld) is sharply delimited from the scarab-shaped sun rising on the eastern horizon, and from Shu receiving him in his arms.