HAM - The scribe Ani and the scales in the Last Judgment
Thoth's declaration to the Ennead, based on the weighing of the heart of the scribe Ani. Created1250 BCE (circa), 19th Dynasty. From the Book of the Dead. At the top the gods of Heliopolis, acting as jury. p. 257 in: HAMMERTON , J.A. (W.J. Ankersmit; Dr. P.A.A. Boeser) (1925). Wonderen der Oudheid. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
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The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript in the form of a scroll with cursive hieroglyphs and color illustrations that was created c. 1250 BCE, during the nineteenth dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Egyptians compiled an individualized book for certain people upon their death, called the Book of Going Forth by Day, more commonly known as the Book of the Dead, typically containing declarations and spells to help the deceased in their afterlife. The Papyrus of Ani is the manuscript compiled for the Theban scribe Ani.
The scroll was stolen from an Egyptian government storeroom in 1888 by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, as described in his two-volume By Nile and Tigris, for the collection in the British Museum where it remains today. Before shipping the manuscript to England, Budge cut the seventy-eight-foot scroll into thirty-seven sheets of nearly equal size, damaging the scroll's integrity at a time when technology had not yet allowed the pieces to be put back together (Wikipedia).
HAM - The scribe Ani and the scales in the Last Judgment
Thoth's declaration to the Ennead, based on the weighing of the heart of the scribe Ani. Created1250 BCE (circa), 19th Dynasty. From the Book of the Dead. At the top the gods of Heliopolis, acting as jury. p. 257 in: HAMMERTON , J.A. (W.J. Ankersmit; Dr. P.A.A. Boeser) (1925). Wonderen der Oudheid. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
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The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript in the form of a scroll with cursive hieroglyphs and color illustrations that was created c. 1250 BCE, during the nineteenth dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Egyptians compiled an individualized book for certain people upon their death, called the Book of Going Forth by Day, more commonly known as the Book of the Dead, typically containing declarations and spells to help the deceased in their afterlife. The Papyrus of Ani is the manuscript compiled for the Theban scribe Ani.
The scroll was stolen from an Egyptian government storeroom in 1888 by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, as described in his two-volume By Nile and Tigris, for the collection in the British Museum where it remains today. Before shipping the manuscript to England, Budge cut the seventy-eight-foot scroll into thirty-seven sheets of nearly equal size, damaging the scroll's integrity at a time when technology had not yet allowed the pieces to be put back together (Wikipedia).