From the papyrus of Ani
Centrally placed is a balance, holding in its two pans Ani’s heart on the left and a feather on the right which represents Maat, the divine personification of truth and order.
Thoth, in human form with ibis head, is the scribe of the gods. He holds a scribe’s palette and a reed brush, ready to note down the results of Ani’s interrogation.
Anubis, here shown as a jackal-headed, human-bodied, kneeling deity, holds the cord of the right-hand pan and steadies the plumb bob of the balance.
Shay, the Egyptian god of fate, is standing to the left of the balance.
