2-325-412 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Judgement of the Dead', from the Temple of Deir-el-Bahari, Egypt, c1025 BC (1936). Papyrus. Anubis weighs the heart of the deceased in the presence of Thoth, who is represented as a monkey squatting on the scales-beam, as Osiris watches from his throne. Plate taken from The Art of Ancient Egypt, published by the Phaidon Press (Vienna, 1936).