THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN scene. Behind him is the Balance, on the beam of which sits the dog-headed ape of Khonsu, the associate of Thoth, the scribe of the gods. Anubis and Horus stand by the support of the Balance, watching the heart balancing the figure of Maat, and Thoth is seen recording the result on a long stick in his left hand. Two figures of the deceased stand by the Balance. In the first his hands are stretched out towards the figure of Maat, as if he were in the act of addressing the goddess ; and in the second he is standing in the embrace of a goddess, probably Maat, and has both hands and arms raised exultingly. The legends which are cut in short lines of hieroglyphics above the figures are much mutilated, but sufficient remains to show that the first contained a petition similar to that found in Chapter XXXB of the Book of the Dead, and the second an address to the gods who were supervising the weighing of the heart, wherein they are besought to act justly, and the third the report by Thoth on the result of the trial of the heart in the Balance. Here, as elsewhere, the result is assumed to be satisfactory for the deceased Arkenkherel, for we see him standing behind the god Osiris Khenti-Amenti, with both hands raised in adoration. A glance at the Judgment Scene as presented in this tomb is sufficient to show that it was copied from a codex of the Saite or Ptolemaic Period, which had preserved several of the characteristic modi fications due to the influence of the priests of Amen. Thus the monster which takes the place of Amemit, or " Eater of the Dead," fiinds his counterpart as guardian of a pylon or Hall of the Other World in the Papyrus of Anhai, as also does the figure of the deceased with his arms raised exultingly. The spelling of the words in the legends above the figures is that which was in use in Egypt in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, and it is a noteworthy point that Thoth is called the "Twice Great'' The contents of the texts were clearly modified to suit the views of the Meroitic priests, but they retained all the essential points of the old Judgment Scene, and if the evidence of the Scenes on the walls of this pyramid is to be trusted, king Arkenkherel was a devout follower of Osiris, and was content to die professing the belief which the oldest dynastic inhabitants of Egypt had held 370