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The chapter of the heart.

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According to some copies of the 30th, or 64th chapter, ' at the end of which this statement is sometimes added, it was found during the reign of Hesep-ti, the fifth king of the first dynasty.

Chapter 30 B belongs to the Psychostasia, in which the heart of the dead man is weighed against the feather, B, emblematic of Law; in the vignette which sometimes accompanies this chapter, the deceased is seen being weighed against his own heart, in the presence of Osiris, the pointer of the scales being watched by the cynocephalus ape of Thoth. The text of this chapter, found upon scarabs with many variants, is as follows:-2

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1 Goodwin, On a text of the Book of the Dead belonging to the Old Kingdom, in Aeg. Zeitschrift, 1866, p. 55; Lepsius, Das Todtenbuch, p. 12.

2 Naville, Das Todtenbuch, bl. xliii.

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from me in the presence of the guardian of the scale.

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Scarabs worn for ornament.

Historical scarabs

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in the presence of the god great, lord of the underworld. How

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The second class of scarabs, i.e., those worn for ornament, exists in many thousands. By an easy transition, the custom of placing scarabs on the bodies of the dead passed to the living, and men and women perhaps wore the scarab as a silent act of homage to the creator of the world, who was not only the god of the dead but of the living also. To attempt to describe this class of scarabs would be impossible in anything but a special work on the subject. The devices and inscriptions are very varied, but at present it is not possible to explain one half of them satisfactorily.

The third class of scarabs, i.e., the historical, appears to be confined to a series of four, extant in many copies, which were made during the reign of Amenophis III., to commemorate

certain historical events. They are of considerable interest, and the texts inscribed upon them refer to :—

I. The slaughter of 102 lions by Amenophis III., during the

first ten years of his reign; the text reads:

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Horus the golden, mighty of valour, smiter of foreign lands,

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Amenḥetep, prince of Thebes, giver of life, [and] royal spouse Thi

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II. The limits of the Egyptian Empire, and the names of the parents of Thi, wife of Amenophis III.; the text reads:

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