Budge, Ernest A. Wallis [Editor]: The book of the dead: facsimiles of the papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerāsher and Netchemet ; with supplementary text from the papyrus of Nu with transcripts, etc. (London, 1899)

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4.— Vignette: Above, Hunefer kneeling before a table of offerings in adoration, in

Chap. cxxv. presence of fourteen gods, seated in order as judges. Below, the Psychostasia, or Weighing

of the Conscience; the jackal-headed Anubis examines the pointer of the balance, wherein
the heart (conscience) of the deceased is being weighed against the Feather, symbolical of
Law or of Right and Truth ; on the left, a jackal-headed deity is leading the deceased by
the left hand; on the right are the Monster Amemit, the Devourer, and the ibis-headed
Thoth, the scribe of the gods, who notes down the result of the trial. The deceased is
next heing introduced into the presence of Osiris by “ Horus, the Avenger of his Father.”

Text: The address of Hunefer to his heart (Chapter XXX. B of the Book of the
Dead); the sentence of acquittal by Thoth; and the speech of Horus.