Having listed on abebooks since 1998 and with over thirty years in the book business, we pride ourselves on accurate descriptions and good customer service. The scene vignettes shows episodes in hunefers judgement. Hunefer s heart is weighed on the scales on the left, against the feather of truth maat on the right. The file above, which appears at on the internet at sacredtexts for the first time is a faithful etext of the 1895 edition of the e. Hunefers judgement in the presence of osiris, book of the dead, 19th dynasty, new kingdom, c. Hunefer and his wife nasha lived during the nineteenth dynasty, in around 10 b. Faulkner, the ancient egyptian book of the dead revised ed. The judgement of the dead in the presence of osiris. Hunefers judgement in the presence of osiris smarthistory. By the festival celebrated by the egyptians in honour of the model of the lost member of osiris, we are probably to understand the public performance of the ceremony of setting up the tet in tattu, which we know took place on the last day of the month choiak. In november of 2000 i inventoried my library and found that i was missing budges book of the dead. Last judgment of hunefer, book of the dead ap art history. Anubis is seen with a scale, weighing hunefers heart with a.
It shows the soul of the deceased hunefer being led to judgment by anubis. Maya jones books offers a wide selection of general used and antiquarian books with a specialty in latin americana and western americana. He was the owner of the papyrus of hunefer, a copy of the funerary egyptian book of the dead. Hunefers judgement in the presence of osiris, book of the dead of hunefer, 19th dynasty, new kingdom, c. Hunefers book of the dead and judgment in the presence of. Wallace budge translation of the egyptian book of the dead.