Egyptian Book of the Dead

the left of the Ṭeṭ is the goddess Isis hieroglyphs for Isis, and on the right the goddess Nebt-ḥet, or Nephthys; each goddess kneels on the emblem of "gold," and each has her hands raised in adoration of the Sun-god. Over all is stretched the vault of the sky hieroglyph for the sky. This Vignette belongs, properly speaking, to the Hymn to Rā on Plate I, which Ani was intended to say as the sun rose.

Fig. I: A rectangular vignette showing a hawk with a solar disk and serpent on its head, standing atop a Ṭeṭ pillar which has human arms holding a crook and flail. Two goddesses stand on either side in adoration, and a column of hieroglyphs is visible on the left.

Fig. 1 is the Vignette of the Sunrise as it is found in the Papyrus of Hunefer. Here the sun appears in the well-known form of a hawk, with the solar disk encircled by a serpent upon his head. The apes that adore him are seven in number, and are called "Ȧmhetet-Rā" hieroglyphs for Amhetet-Ra. Below the hawk stands the Ṭeṭ of Osiris, which is here provided with a pair of human arms and hands holding the symbols of sovereignty, a crook hieroglyph of a crook, and a flail hieroglyph of a flail. On each side of the Ṭeṭ stands a goddess, that on the left of it being Isis, and that on the right Nephthys. The legends read: "I am thy sister Isis," "I am thy sister Nephthys."

Text: A Hymn to Osiris. This is a short composition that merely enumerates the titles of Osiris, and refers to him in his character of the everlasting ruler of heaven and giver of life to men. The Vignette is practically a repetition of that on Plate I.

PLATE III

Vignette: Scene of the Weighing of the Heart of the deceased in the Judgment Hall of Osiris. Ani and his wife Tutu enter the Hall of Maāti Hall of the two truths, wherein the heart hieroglyph of a heart, emblematic of the conscience, is to be weighed in the Balance against the ostrich feather, emblematic of "law," "truth," etc. Above, twelve gods, each holding a sceptre hieroglyph of a sceptre,