Vignettes of the Book of the Dead, chapter 42: Iconographic development
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2019-4-68-111
Abstract
The subject of the paper is the analysis of the iconographic development of the vignettes of chapter 42 of the Book of the Dead (BD) on three stages of its evolution.
I. In the New Kingdom the variety of BD 42 vignettes was maximal. There were two basic types of such pictures with some subtypes. The first type of vignettes is drawn as friezes (Type ‘A’) and the second type comprises the fullsize vignettes (Type ‘B’). The Type ‘A’ vignettes were related with the title of the spell, intended to avoid “slaughtering in Heracleopolis” (the pictures play upon these two words literally: Sa.t and Nnj-nsw). Type ‘B’ was represented as “vignettes-tables” connected with the lists of “Deification of body members” (Gliedervergottung). II. During the Third Intermediate Period the new iconographical subtype of Type ‘A’ vignettes was formed (A2a). It was adapted to the hieratic copies of the BD. III. In the Late BD tradition the previous forms of chapter 42 illustrations disappear and a new type of iconographic representation that inherits Type ‘B’ appears. The iconography of the vignettes is the following: frieze images of gods, placed in one or more registers.
Thereby, the pictorial tradition of BD 42 demonstrates the ways of adaptation of the graphical and textual programs of funeral rolls design, concluding millennial way from “hieroglyphic” (vertically oriented text with adopted images in two different forms of Types ‘A’ and ‘B’ vignettes) to the canonical and “hieratic” (horizontally oriented text with new form of images closely subordinated to it or with BD 41 vignettes).
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N. A. Tarasenko
A.Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies, NASU
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Nikolay A. Tarasenko, Dr. of Sci. (History)
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Tarasenko N.A. Vignettes of the Book of the Dead, chapter 42: Iconographic development. Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion. 2019;(4):68-111. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2019-4-68-111
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