Creature Ammit
Book of the dead of Neferini.
The waiting chimeric devouring creature Ammit composed of the deadly crocodile, lion, and hippopotamus. She is a funerary deity. If the heart was judged to be not pure, Ammit would devour it.
Ptolemaic perod 2nd-1st century BC.
Room 0.12: Journey to the underworld - Egyptian courtyard
Neues Museum, Berlin.
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Creature Ammit
Book of the dead of Neferini.
The waiting chimeric devouring creature Ammit composed of the deadly crocodile, lion, and hippopotamus. She is a funerary deity. If the heart was judged to be not pure, Ammit would devour it.
Ptolemaic perod 2nd-1st century BC.
Room 0.12: Journey to the underworld - Egyptian courtyard
Neues Museum, Berlin.
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Uploaded on May 4, 2012
Taken on April 17, 2012