Iconographic
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ikhet_sekhmet"In the 21st Dynasty a series of new iconographic compositions came into being... [since tomb walls] had ceased being carriers of the... compositions, as a result of the new policy of the Theban Priests Government, their function was taken over by coffins and papyri. The much smaller decorative surface... was a cause of the much greater confidence in pictorial means of expression... as well as the great condensation of the iconographic motifs, and their ambiguity. Practically each scene... bears solar and at the same time, osirian features, showing the great solar-osirian synthesis that... reached its apex in this period."
Aha! This makes more sense of those bizarre funerary papyri.
(As an example of the Project's contents, Niwiński describes a frequently-used vignette of three mummiform deities trampling a serpent, identified with both Apophis and Seth. One of the deities is often lioness- or cat-headed, and may represent Isis. I'm making a note of this because I've got some damn thing somewhere or other about Isis being assimilated to Sekhmet or something. Oy, the mess.)
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Niwiński, Andrzej. "The 21st Dynasty Religious Iconography Project: A Task for the Egyptology in the Nineties. Exemplified by the Scene with Three Deities Standing on a Serpent". in Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Beihefte 3, 1989.
Aha! This makes more sense of those bizarre funerary papyri.
(As an example of the Project's contents, Niwiński describes a frequently-used vignette of three mummiform deities trampling a serpent, identified with both Apophis and Seth. One of the deities is often lioness- or cat-headed, and may represent Isis. I'm making a note of this because I've got some damn thing somewhere or other about Isis being assimilated to Sekhmet or something. Oy, the mess.)
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Niwiński, Andrzej. "The 21st Dynasty Religious Iconography Project: A Task for the Egyptology in the Nineties. Exemplified by the Scene with Three Deities Standing on a Serpent". in Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Beihefte 3, 1989.
