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ikhet_sekhmet) wrote2023-10-11 05:21 pm
ikhet_sekhmet) wrote2023-10-11 05:21 pm
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The Gentleman
While obsessing over Hepet-Hor on 21st Dynasty yellow coffins, I noticed another figure whom I nicknamed "the Gentleman". He is a mummiform, snake-headed demon, with a crown or feather and a beard. Now, I was just reading The Greenfield Papyrus by Budge and its description of Hepet-Hor on Plate CVIII: "[she] is sometimes represented wearing a beard and a crown, consisting of the White Crown to which are added plumes, a disk, and horizontal twisted horns, above which rise uraei wearing horns with disks between them." That's the Gentleman! Could he be she?
The Gentleman appears on coffin fragment 87.4-E at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, in exactly the position you'd expect to see Hepet-Hor -- guarding Osiris on his Mound. Did appearances like this inspire Budge's comment, or is the Gentleman sometimes actually labelled with Hepet-Hor's name? (Where's my photocopy from the Lexikon?) On this coffin, according to Éva Liptay, the figure is labelled "imAxy xr nTr aA" -- "honoured by the great god".
My investigations continue!
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E.A. Wallis Budge. The Greenfield Papyrus. British Museum, London, 1912.
Raymond O. Faulkner. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute, Oxford, 1962.
Éva Liptay. Coffins and Coffin Fragments of the Third Intermediate Period. The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2011.
The Gentleman appears on coffin fragment 87.4-E at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, in exactly the position you'd expect to see Hepet-Hor -- guarding Osiris on his Mound. Did appearances like this inspire Budge's comment, or is the Gentleman sometimes actually labelled with Hepet-Hor's name? (Where's my photocopy from the Lexikon?) On this coffin, according to Éva Liptay, the figure is labelled "imAxy xr nTr aA" -- "honoured by the great god".
My investigations continue!
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E.A. Wallis Budge. The Greenfield Papyrus. British Museum, London, 1912.
Raymond O. Faulkner. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute, Oxford, 1962.
Éva Liptay. Coffins and Coffin Fragments of the Third Intermediate Period. The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2011.