Mar 4, 2024
From the Amduat papyrus of Khonsumes. The tree goddess is a common motif, but apparently it's rare to see Ra-Horakhty being worshipped on these papyri.
Where: Kunsthistorisch Museum Vienna
When: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty
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From the Amduat papyrus of Khonsumes. The tree goddess is a common motif, but apparently it's rare to see Ra-Horakhty being worshipped on these papyri.
Where: Kunsthistorisch Museum Vienna
When: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty
Detail of the Amduat papyrus of Khonsumes. That's Nefertem emerging from the lotus at left.
Where: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
When: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty
[An Egyptian papyrus with various symbols. At left, a man's head emerges from a lotus. Next a snake walks on two legs. At right there's a crocodile.]
Description from Wikimedia Commons: "The sun rises from the mound of creation at the beginning of time. The central circle represents the mound, and the three orange circles are the sun in different stages of its rising. At the top is the "horizon" hieroglyph with the sun appearing atop it. At either side are the goddesses of the north and south, pouring out the waters that surround the mound. The eight stick figures are the gods of the Ogdoad, hoeing the soil." From the Book of the Dead of Khonsumes.
Where: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
When: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty
A detail of the Amduat papyrus of Khonsu-mes. The mouse-headed god (rat-headed? shrew-headed?) who follows the deceased appears on a number of different mythological papyri like this one, doing his job of escorting the dead to their successful judgement.
When: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty
Where: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The Book of the Dead of Chonsu-mes (Khonsumes) at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, dating to the Third Intermediate Period. Khonsumes is ushered to the weighing of his heart by a mouse-headed god; he appears before the scales justified, adorned with the feathers of Ma’at, and is presented to Osiris by Thoth.
2009_0813_152401AA KHM by Hans Ollermann Via Flickr: Papyrus of Pai-Nefer-Nefer Khonsu-mes. Detail. Dynasty 21 11th-10th century B.C. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
(This is just to the right of that.)
2009_0813_152357AA KHM by Hans Ollermann. Two forms of the god Heh kneel on standards in the Twenty-First Dynasty funerary papyrus of Khonsu-mes. At the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.