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the form of a pig ; having been weighed in the scales 

 before Osiris, and " found wanting." Being placed in a 

 boat, and accompanied by two monkeys, it is then dis- 

 missed from the precincts of Amenti, all communication 

 with which is figuratively cut off by a man who hews away 

 the ground with an axe after its passage. 

 448. Plate 88. Final judgment scene before Osiris, the judge 

 of the dead, previous to the admission of the soul into 

 the mansions of the blessed. Osiris is seated on his 

 throne, attended by Isis and Nepthys; and before him are 

 the Four Genii of Amenti standing on a lotus. Horus in- 

 troduces the deceased, after his actions have been 

 weighed in the scales of Truth, and recorded by Thoth. 

 Anubis presides over the balance ; and Cerberus is pre- 

 sent, seated at the gates, into which the deceased is con- 

 ducted by Horus, followed by his sister, who was pro- 

 bably also his wife. 



One of the sacred Boats, or Arks, with two figures rcprescntiiig Cherubim. 



