The Weighing of the Heart Ceremony
The Two Truths in the Judgment Hall weigh the heart of the deceased against Truth, Ma’at. Vignette from a papyrus depicting the Weighing the Heart of the deceased in a balance.
The baboon is one form of Thoth, inventor of writing and secretary to the gods, whose other form is as an ibis-headed man. Above the balance is a block of written hieroglyphs. Detail from a funerary papyrus dates to the 18th Dynasty (ca. 1550-1292 BC) of the New Kingdom of Egypt. Now in the Louvre.