Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)

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

$ ' 1 $ 5 .y A. { 3 FUNERARY PAPYRUS. SOLAR EYE IN THE BARK, BUDAPEST. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 3. Last but not least, the snakes, in addition to the Aker-like creature on the deck, emphasize the symbolism of the passage between the earthly and otherworldly spheres (Ramesses VI's tomb). 4. 2. SOLAR EYE IN THE DISC (FIG. 3) • In addition to appearing in the snake-headed barque of the middle register, the solar eye is shown in another scene of the oldest version of our Schlußszene (in the tomb of Ramesses IX) adopted by the three analysed Twenty-first Dynasty papyri. The figures bending backwards of the lower register

—four androgynous deities obviously linked to the four cardinal points

—and the texts related to them allude to the conception of the act of re-creation and rebirth on the eastern horizon.

8 The disc depicted on the right end of the lower register depicts the figure of a standing goddess. A scarab emerges from both the left and the right sides of the disc, the right one of which pushes a sun-disc before it.