narrow sense (Panofsky, 1939: 6). Penetration to the third level ofintrinsic meaning or content, moreover, requires a deeper level ofknowledge concerning the prevailing social, historic, stylistic orindividual influences on iconography of the time. This lowest levelwould be one more appropriate for the historical phase of a culture,such as the Dynastic phase of Egypt, where a multiplicity of mediaexist in both visual and textual form, informing those areas ofprose, mythology and history and the variation of iconographicalsystems resulting from these influences