Budge, Ernest A. Wallis: Some account of the collection of Egyptian antiquities in the possession of Lady Meux: of Theobalds Park, Waltham Cross (London, 1896)

THE FUNERAL OF AN EGYPTIAN.

or to develop itself from one state of existence into
another. The god Khepera, H O, created him-
self, and everything that exists in earth, air and sky
from emanations of his own body. He rolled the
egg of the Sun across the sky day by day, and the
custom which the beetle (Ateuchus Aegyptiorum)
has of rolling its eggs made up into a ball along
the ground, no doubt" suggested this insect as a
pictorial representation of the god. Moreover, this
class of beetles was thought to consist entirely of
males, and this was a further ground for comparing it
with the god Khepera.

The green basalt scarab intended for the breast of
a mummy is inscribed with the 30th chapter of the
Book of the Dead, a composition which is said by
its rubric to be as old as the time of Mycerinus, a
king of the IVth dynasty, about B.C. 3633. This
chapter is called, " Chapter of not allowing the heart
of a man to be repulsed in the underworld," and has
reference to the judgment of a man before Osiris, the
king and judge of the dead, when his heart was
weighed in a balance. Osiris presided over the scene,
and the four children of Horus who protected the
intestines of the deceased, stood before him ; and all
the great gods were present at the trial. The heart
of the man <&, was placed in one pan of the scales,