Book of the Dead of Nauny: Weighing of the Heart Scene

A painted papyrus strip shows a jackal-headed figure kneeling beside a balance scale, with two standing women in long dresses at left and a seated figure at right. Hieroglyphic columns and small registers of vignettes frame the scene in red, black, and green paint on pale ground.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1050 BCE

Medium

Papyrus, paint

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3811 × 2828 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1930