Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . Tnocephalus emblem of uni-versal justice; the good and bad actions of the soul are weighed inhis presence. Horus examines the plummet, and Thoth records thesentence; standing close by is the soul of the deceased in its cor-. JUDGMENT OP THE SOUL. poreal form, conducted by the two goddesses, Truth and Justice, be-fore the great judge of the dead. A papyrus of this kind is, accordingto Lepsius, a history of the soul after death, and for this reason itwas placed in the tomb with the deceased. Champollion appears tohave regarded this k
Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . Tnocephalus emblem of uni-versal justice; the good and bad actions of the soul are weighed inhis presence. Horus examines the plummet, and Thoth records thesentence; standing close by is the soul of the deceased in its cor-. JUDGMENT OP THE SOUL. poreal form, conducted by the two goddesses, Truth and Justice, be-fore the great judge of the dead. A papyrus of this kind is, accordingto Lepsius, a history of the soul after death, and for this reason itwas placed in the tomb with the deceased. Champollion appears tohave regarded this kind of papyrus as a book of rituals—a livrefuneraire, and that it was more or less complete according to theexpense the deceased wished to incur; perhaps, also, according as,by his rank, he had more or less obligations and duties to fulfiltowards his god, for, in the opinion of the Egyptians, kings had tofulfil every duty, and great personages more duties than a simpleindividual. The extract, consequently, from the ritual dependedon his rank and on the extent of his duties. Many of these ritualsare also found written, not in hieroglyphics, but in hieratic cha-racters, which are an abbreviated form of hieroglyphic with hieroglyphics are nearly always divided by rul
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