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Symbolism of the Frog Image under the Boat Msktt in the New Kingdom

Vostok/Oriens '2014, №5

 
The problem of frog’s image semantics, when there is the frog under the Msktt boat, has been discussed by Egyptologists for many years. Based on individual elements of the scene on the temples’ and tombs’ paintings neglected by previous researchers and fragments of temples of the New Kingdom, the author explains the symbolism of the network located on the bow part solar boat Msktt and of the frog located from below of the network.

Keywords: Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, frog, boat Msktt, solar boat network, wHm anh “repetition of life”, rebirth, red and turquoise beads woven into the network

Pages: С. 25–35