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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18905#0097
THE BOOK O F THE DEAD.
THE PAPYRUS OF ANHAI.
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4.— Vignette : (a) Above, the Great and Little Companies of the gods seated with tables
of offerings before them. Below, the Psychostasia, or Weighing of the Conscience; the
jackal-headed Anubis trying in the Balance the heart (conscience) of the deceased against a
figure of the goddess Maat, symbolical of Law ; on the left are the goddess Maat, Thoth,
ibis-headed, the scribe of the gods, noting down the result of the trial, and before him is the
monster Amemit, the Devourer. Above the Balance are the emblems of the goddesses Shai and
Renenet; on the right, Horus. Thcth is leading Anhai into the presence of Osiris (see Plate 5),
and behind stands the goddess Maat, being embraced by the goddess Amentet.
Text Address to Un-nefer by Horus-Thoth.
THE PAPYRUS OF ANHAI.
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4.— Vignette : (a) Above, the Great and Little Companies of the gods seated with tables
of offerings before them. Below, the Psychostasia, or Weighing of the Conscience; the
jackal-headed Anubis trying in the Balance the heart (conscience) of the deceased against a
figure of the goddess Maat, symbolical of Law ; on the left are the goddess Maat, Thoth,
ibis-headed, the scribe of the gods, noting down the result of the trial, and before him is the
monster Amemit, the Devourer. Above the Balance are the emblems of the goddesses Shai and
Renenet; on the right, Horus. Thcth is leading Anhai into the presence of Osiris (see Plate 5),
and behind stands the goddess Maat, being embraced by the goddess Amentet.
Text Address to Un-nefer by Horus-Thoth.