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CAIRO TO ASSOUAN.
which the heart is placed, and at the same time closely observes the index of the balance.
The opposite scale is trimmed by the dog-headed Anubis, who declares the result of the
scrutiny to the ibis-headed Thoth, the divine wisdom, who stands with his writing-tablet
and pen in front of Osiris, the supreme judge of this fearful assize, and records the
sentence in his presence. Osiris himself is seated in a shrine on the extreme left, and
wears a diadem adorned with two ostrich feathers, and with the disk of the sun and the
SHISHAK AND HIS CAPTIVES ON SCULPTURED WALL AT KARNAK.
horns of a goat. He holds a whip and a crook-headed sceptre symbolizing justice and
law. Immediately before the throne, and within the shrine, is a stand, upon which is
hung the skin of a panther : the meaning of this is unknown. An altar laden with offer-
ings, and surmounted by the lotus-flower, stands in front of the shrine. It probably
represents the acts of piety peformed on behalf of the deceased by his surviving rela-
tives. On the pedestal before the throne a monster crouches, with the paws of a lion
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which the heart is placed, and at the same time closely observes the index of the balance.
The opposite scale is trimmed by the dog-headed Anubis, who declares the result of the
scrutiny to the ibis-headed Thoth, the divine wisdom, who stands with his writing-tablet
and pen in front of Osiris, the supreme judge of this fearful assize, and records the
sentence in his presence. Osiris himself is seated in a shrine on the extreme left, and
wears a diadem adorned with two ostrich feathers, and with the disk of the sun and the
SHISHAK AND HIS CAPTIVES ON SCULPTURED WALL AT KARNAK.
horns of a goat. He holds a whip and a crook-headed sceptre symbolizing justice and
law. Immediately before the throne, and within the shrine, is a stand, upon which is
hung the skin of a panther : the meaning of this is unknown. An altar laden with offer-
ings, and surmounted by the lotus-flower, stands in front of the shrine. It probably
represents the acts of piety peformed on behalf of the deceased by his surviving rela-
tives. On the pedestal before the throne a monster crouches, with the paws of a lion
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