File:The judgement of the dead in the presence of Osiris.jpg
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Summary
Hunefer: Papyrus of Hunefer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Object type | manuscript | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: "This is an excellent example of one of the many fine vignettes (illustrations) from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer.
The scene reads from left to right. To the left, Anubis brings Hunefer into the judgement area. Anubis is also shown supervizing [sic] the judgement scales. Hunefer's heart, represented as a pot, is being weighed against a feather, the symbol of Maat, the established order of things, in this context meaning 'what is right'. The ancient Egyptians believed that the heart was the seat of the emotions, the intellect and the character, and thus represented the good or bad aspects of a person's life. If the heart did not balance with the feather, then the dead person was condemned to non-existence, and consumption by the ferocious 'devourer', the strange beast shown here which is part-crocodile, part-lion, and part-hippopotamus. However, as a papyrus devoted to ensuring Hunefer's continued existence in the Afterlife is not likely to depict this outcome, he is shown to the right, brought into the presence of Osiris by his son Horus, having become 'true of voice' or 'justified'. This was a standard epithet applied to dead individuals in their texts. Osiris is shown seated under a canopy, with his sisters Isis and Nephthys. At the top, Hunefer is shown adoring a row of deities who supervise the judgement." A more detailed explanation of the scene can be found in the public domain The Book of the Dead, by E. A. Wallis Budge.[1] |
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Date | circa 1275 BCE | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | papyrus | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 39.8 cm (15.6 in) ; width: 550 cm (18 ft) dimensions QS:P2048,+39.8U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+550U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
EA 9901 (British Museum) |
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Place of creation | Ancient Egypt | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA9901-3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/p/page_from_the_book_of_the_dead.aspx, https://www.webcitation.org/63ZdUemZU | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Licensing
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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. |
Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
Hunefer's heart, represented as a pot
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