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

P. A. Piccione, "iMehen, Mysteries, and Resurrection from the Coiled Serpent" Journal ofthe American Research Centerin Egypt 27 (1990), 48; Darnell 2004, 122 and n. 391. The serpent beneath the barque as a beneficent power is a rarely occurring motif, but sometimes appears as a ura eus placed under the prow: Realm of Osiris. Mammies, Coffins, and Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Michael C. Carlos Museum, ed. P. Lacovara and B. T. Trope, Atlanta 2001, 50; Gasse 1996, pl. XVI, 9.1: under the platform of the seated Osiris (again as a cobra). For example Gasse 1996, pl. XVI 9.1 and 9.2; see also R. K. Ritner, "A Uterine Amulet in the Oriental Institute Collection", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 43 (1984), 219-20. "Diese Symbolik lässt sich gut dem Doppelaspekt des 'Nichtseins' beiordnen, der die Regeneration des Toten im Jenseits bewirkt" (E. Hermsen, Die zwei Wege des Jenseits (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 112), Freiburg and Göttingen 1991, 127). On this problem: J. F. Borghouts, "The Evil Eve of Apophis", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 59 (1973), 121—in the case of Wnty, Wlmmty and Nhb-klw; on the problem of Apophis/Mehen: ibid., 114, n. 6 (relating to the BD 108), and further B. H. Strieker, "De groote zeeslang", Mededelingen en Verhandelingen No. 10 (1953), 7-8; see also Hornung, Amduat II, 133; Barta 1990, 58; and for Nhl-hr: Hornung 1998, 100-01; Hermsen 1991, 127; Willems 1996, 133-35. Blackman 1918, 26 and pi. III = Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter and Götterbezeichnungen VI, 392; Piankoff 1964, 126 és 175. In a version of the Litany of Re from the Twenty-first Dynasty: Andrzejewski 1959, 23-24. See for example Hornung 1990, Taf. 17a; cf. Book of Gates, 1st division, middle register, second-third scene, where the scarab inside the disc is encircled by the Xlehen snake (J. Zeidler, Pfortenbuchstudien (Göttinger Orientforschungen IV

36), Wiesbaden 1999, II, 16-21; Assmann 1969, 40); the ram-headed god and the scarab aspects in the sun disc, in a Twenty-first Dynasty papyrus: Piankoff and Rambova 1957, no. 20, closing scene. J. Assmann, Sonnenhymnen in thebanischen Gräbern (Theben 1), Mainz am Rhein 1983, 340-41, text 242, TT 359; Darnell 2004, 381-84. See n. 67 and Mysliwiec 1978-79, I, 59-62. Andrzejewski, 1959, 16-28 and pi. 7; Niwinski 1989, fig. 5. One can find a more interesting solution in another Twenty-first Dynasty funerary papyrus that combines the ram-headed aspect of the god with the dwarf-shaped one, cf. n. 72. G. Möller, Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 39 (1901), 72 and Taf. 5. Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen IV, 565. Cf. Pyr. § 2288a (Utt. 758) where the epithet nb 5ht was given to the Mehen-snake itself, the fiery breath of which makes it possible for the deceased pharaoh to be reborn: Piccione 1990, 48.