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Photo. Mansell
JUDGMENT SCENE: WEIGHING THE HEART
The judge is Osiris, behind whom stand Isis and Nepthys. Horus and Anubis lead in two forms of deceased. Thoth makes the record, another form of Anubis adjusts the balance, and the monster waits to destroy deceased if the verdict is unfavourable. On the upper part of the picture deceased salutes some of the two-and-forty gods who surround the Judgment Hall.
From "Book of the Dead" papyrus
